fork

Definitions

• A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
• A pronged tool for use in the garden; a smaller hand fork for weeding etc., or larger for turning over the soil.
• (obsolete) A gallows.
• A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
• A tuning fork.
• An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
• 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.
• A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
• (geography) Used in the names of some river tributary
• (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
• (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
• (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
• (software) The splitting of a software development effort into two or more separate projects, especially in free free and open-source software.
• (software) Any of the software projects resulting from such a split.
• (cryptocurrency) A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
• (British) The crotch.
• (colloquial) A forklift.
• The set of blades of a forklift, on which the goods to be raised are loaded.
• (cycling) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.
• The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.