fork

noun

1. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting, or for serving food.
2. 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.
3. Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc.
4. A tuning fork.
5. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
6. A decision point.
7. A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.
8. 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.
9. A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
10. Either of the (figurative) paths thus taken.
11. Any of the pieces/versions (of software, content, or data sets) thus created.
12. 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.
13. Any of the software projects resulting from the launch of such separate software development efforts based upon a copy of the original project.
14. The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.
15. Any of the pieces/versions of content thus created.
16. A split in a blockchain resulting from protocol disagreements, or a branch of the blockchain resulting from such a split.
17. The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
18. The crotch.
19. A forklift.
20. Either of the blades of a forklift (or, in plural, the set of blades), on which the goods to be raised are loaded.