ETYM AS. forc, from Latin furca. Related to Fourché, Furcate.
1. An agricultural tool used for lifting or digging; has a handle and metal prongs.
2. Fork used for serving and eating.

1. To place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy chess pieces.
2. To shape like a fork.

One of the two parts of a file recognized by the Mac OS. A Macintosh file has a data fork and a resource fork. Most or all of a typical user-produced document is in the data fork; the resource fork usually contains application-oriented information, such as fonts, dialog boxes, and menus. See also data fork, resource fork.

To initiate a child process in a multitasking system after a parent process has been started. See also multitasking.