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FORKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of branching out or dividing into branches
Synonyms:
branching; fork; forking; ramification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("forking" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forking"):
bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
divarication (branching at a wide angle)
fibrillation (act or process of forming fibrils)
Derivation:
fork (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The place where something divides into branches
Synonyms:
forking; furcation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("forking" is a kind of...):
angular shape; angularity (a shape having one or more sharp angles)
Meronyms (parts of "forking"):
branch; leg; ramification (a part of a forked or branching shape)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "forking"):
bifurcation (the place where something divides into two branches)
Derivation:
fork (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb fork
