Dictionary:

forked

  (fôrkt, fôr'kĭd)

1. Containing or characterized by a fork: a forked river.
2. Shaped like or similar to a fork: forked lightning; a forked tail.

Definition: going separate ways
Antonyms: joined, unbranched

1. [common after 1997, esp. in the Linux community] An open-source software project is said to have forked or be forked when the project group fissions into two or more parts pursuing separate lines of development (or, less commonly, when a third party unconnected to the project group begins its own line of development). Forking is considered a Bad Thing — not merely because it implies a lot of wasted effort in the future, but because forks tend to be accompanied by a great deal of strife and acrimony between the successor groups over issues of legitimacy, succession, and design direction. There is serious social pressure against forking. As a result, major forks (such as the Gnu-Emacs/XEmacs split, the fissionings of the 386BSD group into three daughter projects, and the short-lived GCC/EGCS split) are rare enough that they are remembered individually in hacker folklore.

2. [Unix; uncommon; prob.: influenced by a mainstream expletive] Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb.

The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
  Synonyms: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forficate, pronged, prongy

Meaning #2: having two meanings with intent to deceive
  Synonym: double