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bifurcation|baɪfɜːˈkeɪʃən|
[n. of action f. bifurcate v.: see -ation.]
1. Division into two forks or branches (viewed either as an action or a state).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 93 A byfurcation or division of the roote into two parts. 1879Rutley Stud. Rocks ix. 79 A bifurcation of the rays is no longer induced.
b. fig.
1849Grote Greece ii. xlv. marg., Bifurcation of Grecian politics between Sparta and Athens. 1876T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law App. E. 206 An incipient bifurcation of meaning.
2. concr.
a. The point at which the division into two forks takes place.
b. The bifurcating branches or one of them.
1615Crooke Body of Man 905 The greater and vtter part of that byfurcation..descendeth along the Brace. 1761Stiles in Phil. Trans. LV. 263 The tube..lessens gradually as far as the bifurcation. 1855Maury Phys. Geog. Sea ii. §128 To regard them as bifurcations of the Gulf Stream. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) II. ix. 23 The island..at the bifurcation of the Rhine and the Waal. |