bifurcate
verb
- to divide into two
adjective
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Pronunciation: /baɪˈfɛːkɪt/ / /baɪˈfɛːkeɪt/ / /baɪˈfɚkət/ / /ˈbaɪfəˌkeɪt/ / /ˈbaɪfɚˌkeɪt/
adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
- Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
- Having bifurcations.
verb
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
- To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
“A considerable switch is to take place between Charing Cross and Cannon Street as termini for existing trains, in order to develop parallel working over the flat junction at Borough Market, where the two routes bifurcate (four tracks to Cannon Street and two to Charing Cross), as many as 20 times in the maximum hour, when the junction will handle 104 trains in all.”
- To cause to bifurcate.
“The forces that reduce two people to a Goodreads recommendation have bifurcated us politically, and that day we saw the virtual, intangible dangers of this attention economy turn very real: thousands of violent rioters, radicalised online, seemingly brainwashed, fighting with guns for a lie.”