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Adjective
/ˈbīfərˌkāt/,
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bifurcated, past participle; bifurcates, 3rd person singular present; bifurcating, present participle; bifurcated, past tense;
  1. Forked; branched
    • - a bifurcate tree
Verb
  1. Divide into two branches or forks
    • - just below Cairo the river bifurcates
    • - the trail was bifurcated by a mountain stream
  1. split or divide into two
  2. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
  3. divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated"
  4. (bifurcated) divided into or made up of two parts; "socially bifurcated populations"
  5. (bifurcation) a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
  6. (Bifurcation (dynamical systems)) Bifurcation theory is the mathematical study of changes in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family, such as the integral curves of a family of vector fields, and the solutions of a family of differential equations. ...
  7. (Bifurcation (law)) In law, bifurcation is a judge's ability to divide a trial into two parts so as to render a judgment on a set of legal issues without looking at all aspects. Frequently, civil cases are bifurcated into separate liability and damages proceedings. ...
  8. (Bifurcation (river)) A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel. They are a common feature of river deltas. The phenomenon is known as river bifurcation. The opposite of a distributary is a tributary. ...
  9. (bifurcated) Divided into two branches or parts, used to describe the form of the horns in some male scarabs.
  10. (Bifurcation) To separate legal issues for a court decision.
  11. (Bifurcation (Trifurcation)) Juncture of two (three) roots in posterior teeth.
  12. (BIFURCATION) Location where a RIVER separates in two or more reaches or branches (the opposite of a CONFLUENCE).
  13. (BIFURCATION) Splitting a trial into two parts: a liability phase and a penalty phase. In some cases, a new jury may be empaneled to deliberate for the penalty phase.
  14. (Bifurcation) A node in a tree that connects exactly three branches. If the tree is directed (rooted), then one of the branches represents an ancestral lineage and the other two branches represent descendant lineages.
  15. (Bifurcation) In extispicy TT , the branching of a part of the exta TT  into two or more pieces.
  16. (Bifurcation) Term used in chaos theory for a sensitive decision point of a complex system. At a bifurcation, a choice is made between two possible outcomes.
  17. (Bifurcation) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward; also, the place where two tributaries meet.
  18. (Bifurcation) The splitting or branching of possible states that a system can assume due to changing parameters.
  19. (Bifurcation) Usually means to dissolve the marriage before the property issues are resolved.
  20. (Bifurcation) to divide into two parts or categories; i.e. Bifurcation separates the termination of the marriage from the distribution of property so that the marriage and each party's personal life are not restricted or disadvantaged
  21. (bifurcation) A division into two branches; or, the point at which such a division takes place. In dynamical systems terms, a bifurcation occurs when a system moves from one attractor to another.
  22. (bifurcation) A fallacy that occurs when one presumes that a distinction is exclusive and exhaustive, but other alternatives exist. (ch 17) (624)
  23. (bifurcation) refers to a point base that is split
  24. (b' fr kt')    Branched or forked, as in the tongue of a snake or monitor lizard.
  25. the forked branches that are separated into two.