bifurcate
to divide or fork into two branches.
divided into two branches.
Origin of bifurcate
1Other words from bifurcate
- bi·fur·cate·ly [bahy-fer-keyt-lee; bahy-fur-keyt-lee, -kit-], /ˌbaɪ fərˈkeɪt li; baɪˈfɜr keɪt li, -kɪt-/, adverb
- bi·fur·ca·tion [bahy-fer-key-shuhn], /ˌbaɪ fərˈkeɪ ʃən/, noun
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How to use bifurcate in a sentence
Which further bifurcates the market, and makes a diploma even more valuable.
He may turn into the main stream, where it bifurcates, and come down to the junction, when he can steam up to Zalapata.
Up the Forked River | Edward Sylvester EllisThe pectoral trunk bifurcates into two main pectoral arteries , which penetrate M. pectoralis thoracica.
Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae | Marion Anne JenkinsonThe main vessel then penetrates M. supracoracoideus and bifurcates or ramifies into several vessels .
Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae | Marion Anne JenkinsonThe thoracic artery , arising from the pectoral stem, characteristically bifurcates at the anterior end of M. costi-sternalis.
Thoracic and Coracoid Arteries In Two Families of Birds, Columbidae and Hirundinidae | Marion Anne Jenkinson
It is on the Yangtse River just below where it bifurcates into two rivers, one of which goes north-west, the other south-west.
An Australian in China | George Ernest Morrison
British Dictionary definitions for bifurcate
to fork or divide into two parts or branches
forked or divided into two sections or branches
Origin of bifurcate
1Derived forms of bifurcate
- bifurcation, noun
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Scientific definitions for bifurcate
[ bī′fər-kāt′, bī-fûr′- ]
Forked or divided into two parts or branches, as the Y-shaped styles of certain flowers or the tongues of snakes.
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