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1. The place where something divides into branches
   - furcation
    
2. The act of branching out or dividing into branches
   - branching, ramification, fork

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
    
5. (chess) place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces

Derived forms: forkings

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

Encyclopedia: Forking