FORK

v. branch out, split, separate, divide; make into the shape of a fork; pierce or lift with a fork

n. eating utensil with two or more prongs; pitchfork or other agricultural tool with prongs; road junction; branching out; spoke, cog; tuning fork

As a piece of cutlery or kitchenware, a fork is a tool consisting of a handle with several narrow tines (usually two, three or four) on one end. The fork as an eating utensil was a feature primarily of the West, whereas in East Asia chopsticks were more prevalent. Today, however, forks are increasingly available throughout East Asia as well.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

This article is about "forking" a process in a multitasking or multithreading operating system.For other uses, see Fork (disambiguation).A fork, when applied to computing occurs when a process creates a copy of itself, which then acts as a "child" of the original process, now called the "parent". More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is duplicated.Under Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the parent and the child operations are selected by examining the return value of the fork() system call. In the child process, the return value of fork() is 0, whereas the return value in the parent process is the PID of the newly-created child process.
See more at Wikipedia.org...

Fork a pronged instrument. replication fork a site on a DNA molecule at which unwinding of the helices and synthesis of daughter molecules are [more]Fork - Community and Resources

Noun
1. cutlery used for serving and eating food
(hypernym) cutlery, eating utensil
(hyponym) carving fork
(part-meronym) prong
2. the act of branching out or dividing into branches
(synonym) branching, ramification, forking
(hypernym) division
(hyponym) bifurcation
(derivation) bifurcate
3. a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"
(synonym) branch, leg, ramification
(hypernym) subfigure
(hyponym) bifurcation
(part-holonym) furcation, forking
4. an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
(hypernym) tool
(hyponym) hayfork
(part-meronym) prong
(derivation) pitchfork
5. the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
(synonym) crotch
(hypernym) angle
(part-holonym) body, organic structure, physical structure
Verb
1. lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"
(synonym) pitchfork
(hypernym) lift
2. place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
(hypernym) attack, aggress
(classification) chess, chess game
3. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
(synonym) branch, ramify, furcate, separate
(hypernym) diverge
(hyponym) arborize, arborise
(verb-group) ramify, branch
(derivation) branching, ramification, forking
4. shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"
(hypernym) shape, form
(derivation) branch, leg, ramification

(v. t.)
To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.
  

(v. i.)
To shoot into blades, as corn.
  

(v. i.)
To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
  

(n.)
The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.
  

(n.)
The gibbet.
  

(n.)
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
  

(n.)
Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.
  

(n.)
An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.