Definition of fork. Meaning of fork. Synonyms of fork

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Definition of fork

fork
Bracket Brack"et, n. (Gunnery) A figure determined by firing a projectile beyond a target and another short of it, as a basis for ascertaining the proper elevation of the piece; -- only used in the phrase, to establish a bracket. After the bracket is established shots are fired with intermediate elevations until the exact range is obtained. In the United States navy it is called fork.
Fork
Fork Fork, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Forked; p. pr. & vb. n. Forking.] 1. To shoot into blades, as corn. The corn beginneth to fork. --Mortimer. 2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.
Fork
Fork Fork, v. t. To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil. Forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart. --Prof. Wilson. To fork over or out, to hand or pay over, as money. [Slang] --G. Eliot.

Meaning of fork from wikipedia

- In cutlery or kitchenware, a fork (from Latin: furca 'pitchfork') is a utensil, now usually made of metal, whose long handle terminates in a head that...
- In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development...
- A garden fork, spading fork, or digging fork (in the past also an asparagus fork, the same name as a very different utensil) is a gardening implement...
- Look up fork, forked, or forking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A fork is a utensil for eating and cooking. Fork may also refer to: Fork (road),...
- A tuning fork is an acoustic resonator in the form of a two-pronged fork with the prongs (tines) formed from a U-shaped bar of elastic metal (usually...
- In computing, a fork bomb (also called rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack wherein a process continually replicates itself to deplete available...
- particularly in the context of the Unix operating system and its workalikes, fork is an operation whereby a process creates a copy of itself. It is an interface...
- Henrys Fork may refer to: Henrys Fork (Snake River tributary) in Idaho Henrys Fork (Green River tributary) in Utah and Wyoming, forming one arm of the...
- Knife and Fork, Fork & Knife, Knife-Fork, may refer to: Knife and fork, two pieces of cutlery that are commonly used together A combination eating utensil...
- A Morton's fork is a type of false dilemma in which contradictory observations lead to the same conclusion. Its name dates back to the rationalising of...