0 a small object with three or four points and a handle, that you use to pick up food and eat with: --
a knife and fork
1 a tool with a long handle and three or four points, used for digging and breaking soil into pieces: --
a garden fork
2 a place where a road, river, etc. divides into two parts, or either of those two parts: --
4 to move or dig something with a fork --
5 a common tool used in eating that usually has three or four stiff metal points attached to a handle: --
Whenever a ' 'don't know what to do' ' state is reached, a new problem space is forked to solve that problem.
Determining centromere identity : cyclical stories and forking paths.
The special addresses self and creator respectively refer to the thread itself, and the thread that forked it, providing there is such a thread.
By hooking up many tuning forks to a wire, diverse notes at a unique pitch were produced.
Each philosopher needs two forks to eat, so one will only be able to eat when the other is thinking.
Such mutually exclusive forks must be managed in separate worlds.
In addition, every time a message is passed up in a protocol stack a new thread is also forked to handle that.
They lived in quarters in which humans had lived, ate human food at tables from dishes with forks and spoons, and drank from cups.
