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forking

forking

1 5.5
A place where a path or river divides into two parts
  • noun
  • /ˈfɔrkɪŋ/
translation icon : bifurcación
  • The hiker reached a forking path in the woods and took the shorter route home.
  • forking path

He says it it several futures, not all, suggested to me the image of a forking in time rather than in space.

Examples

  • Along one of the two principal, forking paths followed by the image's significance, we discover representations of madness and of fatality, whereas along the other, we find symbols of epistemology and of literary creation.

    Academic text (1991)

  • And that is the outer level of the story of the Garden of Forking Paths.

  • The single story that we shared now splits in two, and we take forking paths.

    Gretel & Hansel (2020)

  • They push on, soon reaching the forking tunnels.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • There's only one way to get there, the gauntlet of forking paths.

  • An arrow of stones laid out on the ground, or one lightly scratched in the rock wall of a forking pass.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • The latest abysmal Gawker "design" decision has also turned the comments into a garden of forking paths that is a major chore to navigate.

    Blog text (9)

  • At the forking path, we had to decide whether to go left or right.

  • A sign marked the forking paths, indicating the way to the waterfall and the campsite.

Synonyms

fork
vsforking
75 3.8

A place where a road, river, or path divides into two branches

is limited to the place of division and not the action of splitting
divide
vsforking
  • Specialized
16 7.6

A high line of land that makes rivers flow to different seas

is about the place where paths or streams split rather than the separating ridge
fork in the road
vsforking
11 3.7

A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options

applies to dividing places generally, not only roads or decision moments
bifurcation
vsforking
  • Formal
6 8.6

A point where a road or river splits into two

permits splitting into two or more parts rather than only two
furcation
vsforking
  • Specialized
9.9

The place where something splits into branches, like a tree root or river

is the general everyday term for such dividing places outside specialist medicine
twistle
vsforking
  • Archaic
9.9

A forked branch or a small stream where two streams meet

is the modern common term for such dividing places rather than archaic use

Antonyms

convergence
21 6.5

Different ideas, methods, or technologies coming together and becoming more similar

joining
1 2.3

An act of bringing two people or things together to connect them

How Branched

branching
3.5
forking
1 5.5
bifurcation
  • Formal
6 8.6

Surface Forms

forking singular
forkings plural

Morphology

forking = fork (transparent) = fork + ing

The point or location of division is a direct nominal extension of 'fork' + -ing and is easy to infer from the base meaning.

Etymology

Forking comes from fork, the tool with two prongs; imagine a trail that splits like those prongs. So a forking is the place where a path, river, or branch 'divides' into two or more parts.