FORKING

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)

-ing form of the verb fork