Meaning & use
forking
Dividing or branching into two or more parts, as a road, path, or river does.
See it in a sentence
The trail kept forking, and we had to guess which path led back to camp.
The river was forking into two narrower streams just past the old bridge.
A note on using this word
In software development, forking means creating an independent copy of a project's code to develop separately from the original.
Words with a similar meaning
branchingdividing
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Another way to use it
2. verb
In software development, creating an independent copy of a project's source code to develop it separately.
He solved the bug by forking the repository and testing his own changes.
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