bifurcate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbaɪfəˌkeɪt/    美 /ˈbaɪfɚˌkeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To divide or fork into two channels or branches. intransitive
    — 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.
  2. To cause to bifurcate. transitive
    — The forces that reduce two people to a Goodreads recommendation have bifurcated 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated. not-comparable
  2. Having bifurcations. not-comparable

词形变化

bifurcates present,singular,third-person bifurcating participle,present bifurcated participle,past bifurcated past

词汇关系

近义词
branch fork biforked
衍生词
bifurcated bifurcation bifurcative bifurcator nonbifurcating rebifurcate bifurcately
相关词
confurcate furcate quadfurcated trifurcate

词源

词源 1
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin bifurcātus. Surface Analysis bi- + furcate.
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