trifurcation vs forking

trifurcation and forking both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trifurcation	Yes	No	No	No
forking	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, forking is a hypernym of trifurcation; that is, forking is a word with a broader meaning than trifurcation:

Other hypernyms of trifurcation include branching, fork, ramification.

trifurcation (noun)	forking (noun)
the act of splitting into three branches	the act of branching out or dividing into branches
	the place where something divides into branches