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Bifurcation   /bˌɪfərkˈeɪʃən/  /bˌaɪfərkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Bifurcation

noun
1.
A bifurcating branch (one or both of them).
2.
The place where something divides into two branches.
3.
The act of splitting into two branches.





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"Bifurcation" Quotes from Famous Books



... think, as he continued, choosing, where there was a bifurcation, the most trampled corridor, hewn originally by the miners' pick. But he had much on his mind for future elaboration. Heretofore no man could have lived a less eventful life, passed among books, globes, drawing tools and lecture ...
— The Son of Clemenceau • Alexandre (fils) Dumas
... the argument turns back to the economic and civil bearing of this prospective development, this virtual bifurcation of the pacified nation into a small number of gentlemen who own the community's wealth and consume its net product in the pursuit of gentility, on the one hand, and an unblest mass of the populace who do the ...
— An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation • Thorstein Veblen


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