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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).
Translations:
verb
- 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.
Translations: - German: aufgabeln
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(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-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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