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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. quotations examples
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.
1964 December, “Southern raises capacity of Borough Market Junction”, in Modern Railways, page 417
(transitive) To cause to bifurcate. examples
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Divided or forked into two; bifurcated. examples
Having bifurcations. examples