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bifurcation

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bifurcation is a judge's ability in law to divide a trial into two parts so as to render a judgment on a set of legal issues without looking at all aspects. Frequently, civil cases are bifurcated into separate liability and damages proceedings. Criminal ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bifurcation \Bi`fur*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. bifurcation.] A forking, or division into two branches.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "the point at which something splits in two," noun of action from bifurcate (v.). Meaning "division into two forks" is from 1640s.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a bifurcating branch (one or both of them) the place where something divides into two branches the act of splitting into two branches

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) A division into two branches. 2 (context by extension English) Any place where one thing divides into two. 3 The act of bifurcate; branching or dividing in two. 4 Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a ...

Usage examples of bifurcation.

Points A, B, and X are merely bifurcations rather than an abutment of two ridges at an angle.

A probe passed along the aorta into the innominate protruded into the same cavity about the bifurcation of the vessel.

At the postmortem examination the nail was found near the bifurcation of the right bronchus, and, although colored black, was not corroded.

Richard slowly turned each over, idly looking for anything that made sense to him as Zedd droned on about overlapping transpositional forks and triple duplexes bound to conjugated roots compromised by precession and sequential, proportional, binary inversions shrouding flawed bifurcations that the formulas revealed which could only be detected through Subtractive levorotatory.

In the event there is a bifurcation of a ridge exactly at the point where the imaginary line would be drawn, two ridges are counted.

There are no ridges intervening between the delta, which is formed by a bifurcation, and the core.

Your man comes nearer, and now some hint of a bulbous enlargement at one end, and perhaps of lateral appendages and a bifurcation, begins to show itself.

The possibilities seemed exhausted -- for the Radaune is not the Vistula -- when under the gymnasium, but before the shaft leading to the municipal sewers, they came across a second bifurcation, crudely stopped up with bricks.

When the system achieves a new state of dynamic stability, the chaotic attractors of the bifurcation epoch give way to a new set of point or periodic attractors.

On the lip of metal that had protected the timer from being blown to smithereens was a faint crescent of ridge endings, crossings, and bifurcations.

What scientists wanted to see was physical problems, described by good old differential equations, that also displayed bifurcations, and universality, and chaotic behavior.

However, such systems are very tricky to study for the occurrence of such things as bifurcations, and involve all the messiness of real-world experiments.

We don't project allegories upon the ruins, so much as we restlessly traverse the bifurcations of Borgesian labyrinths: the infinitely divisible straight line suggested at the end of "Death and the Compass," or the proliferating multiplicities of "The Garden of Forking Paths.

He uncapped the vial of black powder and lightly brushed some onto the prints, clearly defining the ridges and bifurcations.

If I can smoke her, wind her in with words, with what-ifs, with all the bifurcations of her strategy-tree, just long enough to get her eye off the one real now.