1. (Anglicisme informatique) (Programmation informatique) Par analogie avec la fonction précédente transposée à la gestion de projet, projet ou logiciel issu d'une scission d'un projet initial unique, et qui partage avec lui une part de son code source.
Chromium est un fork de Chrome.
2. (Anglicisme informatique) Appel système du système UNIX qui duplique un processus existant.
3. Un fork (terme anglais signifiant « fourche », « bifurcation », « embranchement ») est un nouveau logiciel créé à partir du code source d'un logiciel existant lorsque les droits accordés par les auteurs le permettent : ils doivent autoriser l'utilisation, la modification et la redistribution du code source. C'est pour cette raison que les forks se produisent facilement dans le domaine des logiciels libres. En français québécois on emploie le terme de fourche ; les expressions « embranchement logiciel » et « ramification logicielle » sont également utilisées.
4. La fonction fork fait partie des appels système standard d'UNIX (norme POSIX). Cette fonction permet à un processus (un programme en cours d'exécution) de donner naissance à un nouveau processus qui est sa copie conforme, par exemple en vue de réaliser un second traitement parallèlement au premier. Un bon moyen de visualiser l'effet d'un fork sur un processus est d'imaginer une division cellulaire.
5. [noun] A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
6. [noun] (obsolete) A gallows.
7. [noun] A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
8. [noun] A tuning fork.
9. [noun] An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
10. [noun] One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
11. [noun] A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
12. [noun] (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
13. [noun] (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
14. [noun] (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
15. [noun] (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
16. [noun] (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
17. [noun] (British) Crotch.
18. [noun] (colloquial) A forklift.
19. [noun] The individual blades of a forklift.
20. [noun] In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
21. [verb] To divide into two or more branches.
22. [verb] (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
23. [verb] (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
24. [verb] (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
25. [verb] (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
26. [verb] (British) To kick someone in the crotch.
27. [verb] To shoot into blades, as corn does.
28. [noun] Cutlery used for serving and eating food.
29. [noun] The act of branching out or dividing into branches.
30. [noun] The region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches; 'they took the south fork'; 'he climbed into the crotch of a tree'.
31. [noun] An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
32. [noun] The angle formed by the inner sides of the legs where they join the human trunk.
33. [verb] Lift with a pitchfork; 'pitchfork hay'.
34. [verb] Place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces.
35. [verb] Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; 'The road forks'.
36. [verb] Shape like a fork; 'She forked her fingers'.
