Meaning of BIFURCATION
| Pronunciation: | | `bIfu'keyshun
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- [n] the act of splitting into two branches
- [n] the place where something divides into two branches
- [n] a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
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| | See Also: | | bifurcation, branch, branching, fork, fork, forking, forking, furcation, leg, ramification, ramification | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Bi`fur*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. bifurcation.]
A forking, or division into two branches.
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| Medical Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Division of a channel into two. |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | - Split into two parts.
- A change in the stability or in the types of solutions which occurs as a parameter is varied in a dissipative dynamic system. The change can be seen as a "bifurcation point" in a graph of the parameter being varied vs. one of the properties of the solutions.
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| | Definition: | | a basis of kin classification that distinguishes the mother's side of the family from the father's side. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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, Janus, knee, L, nook, pairing, point, polarity, quoin, ramification, subdivision, swerve, treelikeness, trifurcation, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag |
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