bifurcate
verb/ˈbaɪfəkeɪt/
/ˈbaɪfərkeɪt/
[intransitive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they bifurcate | /ˈbaɪfəkeɪt/ /ˈbaɪfərkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it bifurcates | /ˈbaɪfəkeɪts/ /ˈbaɪfərkeɪts/ |
| past simple bifurcated | /ˈbaɪfəkeɪtɪd/ /ˈbaɪfərkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle bifurcated | /ˈbaɪfəkeɪtɪd/ /ˈbaɪfərkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form bifurcating | /ˈbaɪfəkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈbaɪfərkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- (of roads, rivers, etc.) to divide into two separate partsWord Originearly 17th cent.: from medieval Latin bifurcat- ‘divided into two forks’, from the verb bifurcare, from Latin bifurcus ‘two-forked’, from bi- ‘having two’ + furca ‘a fork’.
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