bifurcation
Use Bifurcation in a sentencebi·fur·cate
[v., adj. bahy-fer-keyt, bahy-fur-keyt; adj. also bahy-fer-kit, bahy-fur-] verb, bi·fur·cat·ed, bi·fur·cat·ing, adjective 
fərˌkeɪt, baɪˈfɜrBased on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2013.
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| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| bifurcate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to fork or divide into two parts or branches |
| —adj | |
| 2. | forked or divided into two sections or branches |
| [C17: from Medieval Latin bifurcātus, from Latin bifurcus, from | |
| bifur'cation | |
| —n | |
| bifurcate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to fork or divide into two parts or branches |
| —adj | |
| 2. | forked or divided into two sections or branches |
| [C17: from Medieval Latin bifurcātus, from Latin bifurcus, from | |
| bifur'cation | |
| —n | |
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bifurcate bi·fur·cate (bī'fər-kāt', bī-fûr'-)
v. bi·fur·cat·ed, bi·fur·cat·ing, bi·fur·cates
To divide into two parts or branches. adj. (-kāt', -kĭt)
Forked or divided into two parts or branches.
bifurcation bi·fur·ca·tion (bī'fər-kā'shən)
n.
A division into two branches; a forking.
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| bifurcate (bī'fər-kāt', bī-fûr'-) Pronunciation Key
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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bifurcation
(from Greek dicha, "apart," and tomos, "cutting"), a form of logical division consisting of the separation of a class into two subclasses, one of which has and the other has not a certain quality or attribute. Men thus may be divided into professional men and men who are not professionals; each of these may be subdivided similarly. On the principle of contradiction this division is both exhaustive and exclusive; there can be no overlapping, and no members of the original genus or the lower groups are omitted. This method of classification, though formally accurate, has slight value in the exact sciences, partly because at every step one of the two groups is merely negatively characterized and is usually an artificial, motley class; but it sets forth clearly the gradual descent from the most inclusive genus (summum genus) through species to the lowest class (infima species), which is divisible only into individual persons or things.
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