Learned borrowing fromMedieval Latinbifurcātus. Surface Analysisbi- +furcate.
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- Hyphenation:bi‧fur‧cate
bifurcate (third-person singular simple presentbifurcates,present participlebifurcating,simple past and past participlebifurcated)
- (intransitive) Todivide orfork into two channels or branches.
1964 December, “Southern raises capacity of Borough Market Junction”, inModern Railways, page417: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 routesbifurcate (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.
- (transitive) To cause to bifurcate.
2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, inFinancial Times[1], archived fromthe original on22 January 2021:The forces that reduce two people to a Goodreads recommendation havebifurcated 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.
bifurcate (notcomparable)
- Divided orforked into two;bifurcated.
- Havingbifurcations.
Divided or forked into two; bifurcated
bifurcāte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofbifurcātus
bifurcate
- second-personsingular voseoimperative ofbifurcar combined withte
