Crossword clues for bifurcation
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
1610s, "the point at which something splits in two," noun of action from bifurcate (v.). Meaning "division into two forks" is from 1640s.
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 division. 5 (context geography English) A place where two roads, tributary etc. part or meet. 6 (context nautical English) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward. 7 (context mathematics English) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as decribed by bifurcation theory. 8 (context computer science English) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
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
Wikipedia
Bifurcation means the splitting of a main body into two parts.
Bifurcation or bifurcated may refer to:
- Bifurcation (law), the division of issues in a trial
- Bifurcation theory, the study of bifurcation in dynamical systems
- River bifurcation, the forking of a river into its distributaries
- Bifurcation lake, a lake that flows into two different drainage basins
- Bifurcation of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow
- Bifurcated bonding, in which a single hydrogen atom participates in two hydrogen bonds
- Aortic bifurcation, the point at which the abdominal aorta bifurcates into the left and right common iliac arteries
- Bifurcation of the trachea, the carina of trachea
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 trials are also often bifurcated into guilt and sentencing phases, especially in capital cases.
In divorce cases, some states allow bifurcation, that permits a divorce case to be finalized with certain aspects, such as property, to be dealt with after dissolution. Some states permit bifurcation, some do not allow it, and some state statutes do not address the issue.
In arbitration, bifurcation can be used to get past certain issues, that might otherwise stall negotiations, concluding certain points that are agreed upon, while working on a solution to whatever problem initiated the need for bifurcation.
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.