Usually means: Division into two branches or paths.
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  1. bifurcation: Merriam-Webster
  2. bifurcation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bifurcation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bifurcation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bifurcation, bifurcation: Wordnik
  6. bifurcation: Wiktionary
  7. bifurcation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. bifurcation: Dictionary.com
  9. Bifurcation (law), Bifurcation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  11. bifurcation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  13. Bifurcation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bifurcation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  3. Bifurcation (dynamical systems), Bifurcation (river), bifurcation: Encyclopedia

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  5. bifurcation: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
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(Note: See bifurcations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bifurcation)

noun:  (biology) A division into two branches.
noun:  (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
noun:  The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
noun:  Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
noun:  (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
noun:  (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
noun:  (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
noun:  (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.

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