'Bifurcation' definitions:
Definition of 'bifurcation'
(from WordNet)
noun
A bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
noun
The place where something divides into two branches
noun
The act of splitting into two branches
Definition of 'Bifurcation'
From: GCIDE
- Bifurcation \Bi`fur*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. bifurcation.] A forking, or division into two branches. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bifurcation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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