1. The act of branching out or dividing into branches
   "The forking of the river created a delta";
   - branching, ramification, fork
    
2. The place where something divides into branches
   "The forking of the road led to two different towns";
   - furcation

1. Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
   "The road forks";
   - branch, ramify, furcate, separate
    
2. Lift with a pitchfork
   "fork hay";
   - pitchfork
    
3. Shape like a fork
   "She forked her fingers"
    
4. (computing) split a project, repository or process into two or more independent copies or parts
   "The developer forked the open-source project to add new features"
    
5. (chess) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
   "She forked the opponent's queen and rook"

Derived forms: forkings

Type of: aggress, angular shape, angularity, attack, diverge, division, form, lift, shape

Encyclopedia: Forking