fork

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

A fork in the road, as follows:

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

A road, a tree, or a stream forks.

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

A parent process forks a child process, which in turn can fork other processes.

It appears that the shell forks a copy of itself and that this copy then forks to make each of the previous processes in the pipeline.

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

For various reasons, McCool's server project subsequently forked, leading to the development of the Apache Web Server.

Google forked WebKit to create the Blink project in April 2013 because they wanted to make larger-scale changes to WebKit to fit their own needs that did not align well with the WebKit project itself.

To divide into two or more branches or copies.

In this model, anyone can fork an existing repository and push changes to their personal fork.

To move with a fork (as hay or food).

forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart

Brianna curbed her pang of envy as she forked her plain, low-fat, crouton-free salad niçoise into her mouth and shook her head.

The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.