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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

  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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