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US
/ˈbaɪfɝˌkeɪt, ˈbɪfɝˌkeɪt/
]
VERB
-
divide into two branches
The road bifurcated - split or divide into two
ADJECTIVE
-
resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots
the biramous appendages of an arthropod
a forked tail
a forked river
forked lightning
long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects
How To Use bifurcate In A Sentence
- The highly centralized hub-and-spoke system - centralized for the airlines, not us - now regularly bifurcates and often trifurcates even an hour's flight time as the crow flies into a four-hour series of legs.
- The data base from which the app chooses arpeggios is a linked bifurcated system where the computer "knows" which upper structures are consonant with which lower structures so the chords can move in leap-frog fashion: top notes can remain when lower notes change or vice versa because the moves are guaranteed to make harmonic sense. Joseph Vella: Jazz, Math, Tech & Lyle Mays
- Lewis and his co-authors tend to unnecessarily bifurcate explicit rational insight (so-called cortical knowledge) and experiential learning (so-called subcortical knowledge).
- It is attached to the cuboid by an interosseous ligament and to the cuboid and navicular bones by the strong bifurcate ligament.
- The striae ridges are broad and bifurcate both apically and basally, and the grooves are narrow and sharp.
- One morning, a village on the periphery of a city wakes up to find itself bifurcated by the construction of a National Highway.
- In older embryos, the dorsal branch bifurcates.
- The center rod bifurcates at the top, and one branch joins the adjacent vertical.
- A sample of water was taken from the point where the river bifurcates.
- A "bifurcated wire wrap" terminal block is one that has an "H" shape, which forms one electrical connection pair with two connection terminals.