bifurcation
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- noun
- /ˌbaɪfərˈkeɪʃən/
- Formal
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bifurcación
- The engineer explained the bifurcation of the road into two lanes ahead.
- carotid bifurcation
- bifurcation point
- bifurcation of society
So we have a kind of bifurcation in thought here in the Enlightenment as well.
- So we have a kind of bifurcation in thought here in the Enlightenment as well.
- Each is the starting point for further bifurcations.
- And if it's that I'm evil, then it's probably got multiple bifurcations over the billion years of life's evolution.
- I mean that this is no longer true since the kind of like bifurcation of like Russian and Ukrainian geopolitical path.
- The solution to the problem in the Solomonian fashion would be bifurcation, or in other words, the splitting of Palestine into two the two state solution.
- In other words, a bifurcation of the society.
- And that's just not true today that, that, that that bifurcation has eroded and collapsed.
- And those sudden transitions that they were describing, they those were fold bifurcations or saddle node bifurcations, right?
- It's going to have all kinds of of different types of fixed points, multiple bifurcations.
Examples
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So we have a kind of bifurcation in thought here in the Enlightenment as well.
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And is there a significant bifurcation that makes your generalization more limited than I wish it were?
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Yet, with respect to the bifurcation of the black citizenship experience, a serious question remains:
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What actually transpired was the bifurcation of the elite.
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The crank mail is simply a reminder of the very real bifurcation of our society.
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In our time, this bifurcation of motives among poets has become so pronounced as to be tribal.
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In this case, the dynamics exhibit interesting bifurcations and nonlinear behaviors.
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In the custody case that won't go away despite mediation and bifurcation, work toward a stipulation on visitation.
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Equally troubling is Arsuzi's bifurcation of mankind into two main worldviews: one Greco-Western and one Semitic-Arab.
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The bifurcation of the river creates two distinct waterways.
Synonyms
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A place where a road divides into two paths or a time to choose between two options
The place where something splits into branches, like a tree root or river
A division of something into two separate parts
Antonyms
How Branched
Surface Forms
Morphology
bifurcation = bifurcate (semi-transparent) = bi + furc + ation
The noun is a regular nominalization of 'bifurcate', but the combining element 'furc' (meaning 'fork') is not familiar to average learners so the relation is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Bifurcation comes from the Latin parts bi- meaning 'two' and furca meaning 'fork'. Think of a road or river reaching a 'fork' and splitting into two, so a bifurcation is the point or action of dividing into two.