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Verzweigung — 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.
  • crotch noun The area of the body where the legs meet the torso, around the genitals.
  • fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
  • ramification noun A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.

Senses

Verzweigung is used for these senses in English:

  • bifurcation The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
  • bifurcation (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
  • crotch The area where something forks or branches: where a ramification takes place.
  • 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.
  • furcation The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out.

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.

crotch — full definition

  1. noun The area of the body where the legs meet the torso, around the genitals.
  2. noun The point where something forks or branches into two parts, such as a tree limb or a pair of trousers.

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