bifurcation — 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.
- fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
Senses
bifurcation is used for these senses in English:
- bifurcation (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- 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.
fork — full definition
- noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
- noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
- noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
- verb To split into two or more branches or directions.