bifurcate
See also: bifúrcate
English
WOTD – 8 February 2016
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbʌɪ.fə.keɪt/
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- (General American, adjective) IPA(key): /baɪˈfɝ.kɪt/
- (General American, verb) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪ.fɚˌkeɪt/, /baɪˈfɝˌkeɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt
Adjective
bifurcate (not comparable)
- Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
- Having bifurcations.
Translations
Divided or forked into two; bifurcated
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Having bifurcations.
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Verb
bifurcate (third-person singular simple present bifurcates, present participle bifurcating, simple past and past participle bifurcated)
- (intransitive) To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
- 1964 December, “Southern raises capacity of Borough Market Junction”, in Modern Railways, page 417:
- 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.
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- (transitive) To cause to bifurcate.
Synonyms
- branch
- fork
Related terms
- bifurcation
- confurcate
- quadfurcated
- trifurcate
Translations
divide into two
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Latin
Adjective
bifurcāte
- vocative masculine singular of bifurcātus