Usually refers to the front fork, the part of the frame set that holds the front wheel The fork is attached to the main frame by the headset The fork consists of the two blades that go down to hold the the axle, the fork crown, and the steerer The term "rear fork" is sometimes used to refer to the part of the frame that holds the rear wheel Joshua Putnam has a good discussion of forks and Bicycle Steering Geometry on his Web site
If you fork food into your mouth or onto a plate, you put it there using a fork. Ann forked some fish into her mouth He forked an egg onto a piece of bread and folded it into a sandwich
The Mac Standard and Extended file systems store a separate "data" fork and a "resource" fork as part of every file; data in each fork can be accessed and manipulated independently of the other In BSD, fork is a system call that creates a new process
A thread can fork into two threads, each identical to the original except that it continues on a separate branch of the program See E17
If a road, path, or river forks, it forms a fork. Beyond the village the road forked The path dipped down to a sort of cove, and then it forked in two directions. see also tuning fork
(v ) To create a new process that is a copy of its immediate parent See also: join, spawn>
An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects
A term that is used when one process creates another process This is also known as spawning a process
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc