bifurcació — meaning in English

English meaning

• bifurcation noun The splitting of something into two branches or parts, or the point at which that split happens.
• fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.

Senses

bifurcació is used for these senses in English:

• fork (physical) An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
• fork (metonymic, analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) 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.

bifurcation — full definition

1. noun The splitting of something into two branches or parts, or the point at which that split happens.
2. noun In law, the division of a trial or dispute into separate stages that are heard one after the other.
3. noun In mathematics and physics, a sudden qualitative change in the behaviour of a system as one of its parameters passes a critical value.

fork — full definition

1. noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
2. noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
3. noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
4. verb To split into two or more branches or directions.

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