2. divided into or made up of two parts. socially bifurcated
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Syn: chesty. [WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
bifurcate — I verb bisect, branch, branch off, branch out, cleave, cut in two, dichotomize, dimidiate, divaricate, diverge, divide into two, fork, form a fork, furcate, halve, part, partition, ramify, separate, split, sunder associated concepts: bifurcated… … Law dictionary
Bifurcate — Bi*fur cate, v. i. To divide into two branches. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
bifurcate — [bī′fər kāt΄, bī fʉr′kāt΄; ] for adj. also [, bī′fərkit, bī fʉr′kit] adj. [ML bifurcatus < L bifurcus < bi , BI 1 + furca, FORK] having two branches or peaks; forked vt., vi. bifurcated, bifurcating to divide into two parts or branches … English World dictionary
bifurcate — {{11}}bifurcate (adj.) 1835, from M.L. bifurcatus, from L. bi (see BI (Cf. bi )) + furca, the root of FORK (Cf. fork). {{12}}bifurcate (v.) 1610s, from M.L. bifurcatus, from L. bi (see BI (Cf. bi )) + … Etymology dictionary
bifurcate — UK [ˈbaɪfə(r)keɪt] / US [ˈbaɪfərˌkeɪt] verb [intransitive] Word forms bifurcate : present tense I/you/we/they bifurcate he/she/it bifurcates present participle bifurcating past tense bifurcated past participle bifurcated formal to divide into two … English dictionary
bifurcate — verb ( cated; cating) Etymology: Medieval Latin bifurcatus, past participle of bifurcare, from Latin bifurcus two pronged, from bi + furca fork Date: 1615 transitive verb to cause to divide into two branches or parts intransitive verb to divide… … New Collegiate Dictionary
bifurcate image — dvigubasis atvaizdas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. bifurcate image; double image; ghost image vok. Doppelbild, n; Geisterbild, n rus. раздвоенное изображение, n pranc. image double, f … Fizikos terminų žodynas
bifurcate merging — adjective of kinship name classes : identifying collateral relatives with lineal relatives of the same sex and generation when the connecting relative is of the same sex but distinguishing them when the connecting relative is of the opposite sex… … Useful english dictionary
bifurcate — divided in two, forked … Dictionary of ichthyology
bifurcate — adj. [L. bis, two; furca, fork] Divided into two branches, stems or knobs; two pronged … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
