Definition of fork

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fork
noun

A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
(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.
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions (see image).
(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 execute, executing parts of the same program.
(computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
crotch, Crotch (British usage).

Dutch: kruis {{n^(nl)
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French: fourche
German: Gabel
Italian: bivio
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Spanish: bifurcación

To use a fork to move food to the mouth.
(context, computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicate, duplicating the existing process.
(context, computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
To kick someone in the crotch.

German: aufgabeln
(trans-bottom) (trans-top, computer science: spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process)
Dutch: (t, nl, afsplitsen)
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(trans-bottom) (trans-top, UK: kick someone in the crotch)
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Etymology: Old English forcaOld English, forca , forceOld English, force , from Latin furca "pitchfork, yoke". Later reinforced under influence of Old Northern French forque ( = Old French forche > French fourche), from the Latin.

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