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fork [n]
 
1)cutlery used for serving and eating food
    Synonyms :
    See Also: cutlery  carving_fork  prong  salad_fork  tablefork  tine  toasting_fork 
 
2)the act of branching out or dividing into branches
    Synonyms :branching forking ramification 
    See Also: division  branch  bifurcate  bifurcate  branch  bifurcation  trifurcation  divarication  fibrillation 
 
3)a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches"; "they took the south fork"
    Synonyms :branch leg ramification 
    See Also: subfigure  forking  branch  branch  bifurcation  brachium 
 
4)an agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs
    Synonyms :
    See Also: tool  hayfork  prong 
 
5)the angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk
    Synonyms :crotch 
    See Also: angle  body 
 
fork [v]
 
1)lift with a pitchfork; "pitchfork hay"
    Synonyms :pitchfork 
    See Also: lift  pitchfork 
 
2)place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
    Synonyms :
    See Also: aggress  chess 
 
3)divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
    Synonyms :branch furcate ramify separate 
    See Also: diverge  forking  branching  branch  ramification  branch  branch_out  branch  arborise  twig  bifurcate  trifurcate 
 
4)shape like a fork; "She forked her fingers"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: form  branch 
 

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

A Unix system call used by a process (the "parent") to make a copy (the "child") of itself. The child process is identical to the parent except it has a different process identifier and a zero return value from the fork call. It is assumed to have used no resources.

A fork followed by an exec can be used to start a different process but this can be inefficient and some later Unix variants provide vfork as an alternative mechanism for this.

See also fork bomb.

(1996-12-08)



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