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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bifurcation has 3 senses
- bifurcation(n = noun.shape) Array - a bifurcating branch (one or both of them); Array is a part of bifurcation
- bifurcation(n = noun.shape) Array - the place where something divides into two branches; Array is a kind of forking, furcation
- bifurcation(n = noun.act) Array - the act of splitting into two branches; Array is a kind of branching, fork, forking, ramification
is a kind of branch, leg, ramification
Derived forms verb bifurcate2, verb bifurcate1
has parts: bifurcation
Derived form verb bifurcate2
Derived forms verb bifurcate2, verb bifurcate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
bifurcation, n. [Cf. F. bifurcation.].
A forking, or division into two branches. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
bifurcation, n.
1 a a division into two branches. b either or both of such branches.
2 the point of such a division.
1 a a division into two branches. b either or both of such branches.
2 the point of such a division.
THESAURUS
bifurcation
Janus, L, ambiguity, ambivalence, angle, apex, arborescence, arborization, bend, bifidity, biforking, biformity, bight, bipartition, bisection, branching, branching off, by two, cant, chevron, coin, conjugation, corner, crank, crook, crotchet, cutting in two, deflection, dichotomy, dimidiation, divarication, division, dogleg, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication, duplicity, elbow, ell, equivocality, fork, forking, furcation, halving, hook, in half, inflection, irony, knee, nook, pairing, point, polarity, quoin, ramification, subdivision, swerve, treelikeness, trifurcation, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzagROGET THESAURUS
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bisection
N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.Angularity
N angularity, angularness, aduncity, angle, cusp, bend, fold, notch, fork, bifurcation, elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke, scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo, akimbo, corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel, coign, right angle, obliquity, angle of 45 degrees, miter, acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle, spherical angle, angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular velocity, trigonometry, goniometry, altimetry, clinometer, graphometer, goniometer, theodolite, sextant, quadrant, dichotomy, triangle, trigon, wedge, rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond, rhomb, rhombus, quadrangle, quadrilateral, parallelogram, quadrature, polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon, decagon, pyramid, cone, Platonic bodies, cube, rhomboid, tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron, prism, pyramid, parallelopiped, curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof, angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated, falciform, falcated, furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag, furcular, hooked, dovetailed, knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated, oblique, fusiform, wedge-shaped, cuneiform, cuneate, multangular, oxygonal, triangular, trigonal, trilateral, quadrangular, quadrilateral, foursquare, rectangular, square, multilateral, polygonal, cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.
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