tienhaara — meaning in English
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English meaning
- bifurcation noun The splitting of something into two branches or parts, or the point at which that split happens.
- crossroads noun A place where two or more roads meet.
- fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
Senses
tienhaara is used for these senses in English:
- bifurcation (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- crossroads (figuratively, by analogy) A decision point; a turning point or opportunity to change a direction, a course, or a goal.
- 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.
- fork in the road A junction in which one road becomes two divergent roads.
bifurcation — full definition
- noun The splitting of something into two branches or parts, or the point at which that split happens.
- noun In law, the division of a trial or dispute into separate stages that are heard one after the other.
- noun In mathematics and physics, a sudden qualitative change in the behaviour of a system as one of its parameters passes a critical value.
crossroads — full definition
- noun A place where two or more roads meet.
- noun A critical decision point or turning point in life or a situation.