Junction vs Fork - What's the difference?
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The act of joining, or the state of being joined.
A place where two things meet, especially where two roads meet.
The boundary between two physically different materials, especially between conductors, semiconductors, or metals.
(nautical) The place where a distributary departs from the main stream.
(radio, television) A point in time between two unrelated consecutive broadcasts.
* 2007 , Gary Hudson, ?Sarah Rowlands, The Broadcast Journalism Handbook (page 336)
* 2010 , Peter Stewart, Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show
(computing, Microsoft Windows) A kind of symbolic link to a directory.
A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
(obsolete) A gallows.
A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
A tuning fork.
An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
* When you come to a fork in the road, take it -
One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.
* Addison
A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
(geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White River, joining together to form the White River of Indiana
(figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).
(computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts of the same program.
(computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into two or more separate projects.
(British) Crotch.
(colloquial) A forklift.
* Are you qualified to drive a fork?
The individual blades of a forklift.
In a bicycle, the portion holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance.
To divide into two or more branches.
To move with a fork (as hay or food).
* Prof. Wilson
(computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
(computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
(computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository
(British) To kick someone in the crotch.
To shoot into blades, as corn does.
* Mortimer
As nouns the difference between junction and fork
is that junction is the act of joining, or the state of being joined while fork is a pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.As a verb fork is
to divide into two or more branches.junction
English
(wikipedia junction)Noun
(en noun)- Even rolling news has junctions to meet - headlines on the hour or half-hour, or links to live events, for example.
- Try to avoid becoming too predictable or repetitive, particularly at regular junctions .
Synonyms
* (place where two things meet) intersectionDerived terms
* depletion junction * junction box * junction canal * junction detector * junction diode * junction gate * junction nevus * junction table * junction transistor * p-n junctionfork
English
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(en noun)- (Bishop Joseph Butler)
- a thunderbolt with three forks .
Derived terms
* chork * digging fork * fork in the road * pitchfork * spork * tuning forkVerb
(en verb)- A road, a tree, or a stream forks .
- forking the sheaves on the high-laden cart
- The corn beginneth to fork .