Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bifurcation

3 senses of bifurcation

Sense 1
bifurcation -- (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))
       => branch, leg, ramification -- (a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches")

Sense 2
bifurcation -- (the place where something divides into two branches)
       => furcation, forking -- (the place where something divides into branches)

Sense 3
bifurcation -- (the act of splitting into two branches)
       => branching, ramification, fork, forking -- (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)