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bifurcation
English
Etymology
From bifurcate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ba?f??ke???n/
- (US) enPR: b?'f?r-k??sh?n, IPA(key): /?ba?f??ke???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
bifurcation (countable and uncountable, plural bifurcations)
- (biology) A division into two branches.
- (by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
- The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
- (geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
- (nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
- (mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
- (computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
Synonyms
- (division into two branches): branched, branching, forked, forking
Derived terms
- bifurcation theory
- postbifurcation
- prebifurcation
Related terms
- bifurcate
- trifurcation
- quadfurcation
Translations
French
Etymology
bifurquer +? -tion, Medieval Latin bifurcus (“two-spronged”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bifurcation f (plural bifurcations)
- A bifurcation, where two roads etc. part or meet
Related terms
- bifurquer (verb)
Further reading
- “bifurcation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
bifurcation From the web:
- what bifurcation means
- what bifurcation lesion
- what bifurcation does
- what bifurcation point
- what bifurcation ratio
- what is bifurcation in golf
- what is bifurcation in divorce
- what is bifurcation diagram
taxonomy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French taxonomie. Surface analysis taxo- +? -nomy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /tæk?s?n?mi/
- (US) IPA(key): /tæk?s??n?mi/
- Rhymes: -?n?mi
Noun
taxonomy (countable and uncountable, plural taxonomies)
- The science or the technique used to make a classification.
- A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.
- (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
Synonyms
- taxonomics
- (science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms): alpha taxonomy
Coordinate terms
- nomenclature
- ontology
Derived terms
Translations
taxonomy From the web:
- what taxonomy means
- what taxonomy are humans
- what taxonomy do humans belong to
- what taxonomy is not a type of taxonomy
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