What is the meaning of Fork?

Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:

2. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

   A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.

   Any of several types of pronged tools for use on farms, in fields, or in the garden or lawn, such as a smaller hand fork for weeding or a larger one for turning over the soil.

   1. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

      Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.

      A tuning fork.

      A fork in the road, as follows:

      1. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
      2. A decision point.

      An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.

      A decision point.

      A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.

      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.

      A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.

      1. Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.

      Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.

      A departure from having a single source of truth (SSOT), sometimes intentionally but usually unintentionally.

      1. Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.

         Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.

         The launch of one or more separate software development efforts based upon a modified copy of an existing project, especially in free and open-source software.

         1. Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.

            Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.

            The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.

            Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.

            A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.

            The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

            The crotch. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

            A forklift.

            Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.

            In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.

            The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.

            A gallows.

            To divide into two or more branches or copies.

            To spawn a new child process by duplicating the existing process.

            To launch a separate software development effort based upon a modified copy of an existing software project, especially in free and open-source software.

            To create a copy of a distributed version control repository.

            To move with a fork (as hay or food).

            To kick someone in the crotch.

            To shoot into blades, as corn does.

            Euphemistic form of fuck.

            The bottom of a sump into which the water of a mine drains.

            To bale a shaft dry.

            (two-pronged) fork, pitchfork

            A fork, splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.

            Alternative form of forke

            Source: wiktionary.org