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 multiple outgoing Sequence Flow or an Parallel Gateway to perform a Fork.

This term can be found in the OMG  Business Process Model and Notation, V2.0 specification http://www.omg.org/spec/BPMN/2.0/PDF/