Term Definition: Fork
Main Description

A fork is a pint in the Process where a single flow is divided into two or more Flow. It is a mechanism that will allow activities to be performed concurrently, rather than sequentially. BPMN uses mulitple outgoing Sequence Flow or an Parallel Gateway to perform a Fork.

This term can be found in the OMG  Business Process Modeling Notation, V1.2 (Beta 3)  specification http://www.omg.org/docs/dtc/08-02-07.pdf