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A division into two branches.

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(by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.

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The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.

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Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.

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A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.

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The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.

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The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.

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A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.

It is also described as a bifurcation of two twigs, mental and bodily creation out of a common root.

This is shown by the fold bifurcation in the second order model.

It is possible to pass the endoscope right down to where the trachea splits into large bronchi at the bifurcation.

It is represented either by a spina interna or by a spina externa, or by both, or they join to form a spina communis which is often very large and sometimes ends in a bifurcation.

Just below Mussaib there has been for all ages a great bifurcation of the river.

It stands on an island of the same name, formed by the bifurcation of the river Cauvery and by the channel of the Coleroon.

The sequence of diagrams above shows the stable set, denoted by the blue curve, undergoing a type-2 contact bifurcation.

An analysis of this homoclinic bifurcation is performed in a general frame.

The first bifurcation of the vertically upward position is a " reverse " subcritical pitchfork bifurcation denoted by PF2.

Their use in a continuation setting is shown with one- and two-parameter bifurcation studies of a transmission line model.

Below the bifurcation the river of Babylon was again divided into several streams, and indeed the most famous of all the ancient canals was the Arakhat (Archous of the Greeks and Serrat and Nil of the Arabs), which left that river just above Babylon and ran due east to the Tigris, irrigating all the central part of the Jezireh, and sending down a branch through Nippur and Erech to rejoin the Euphrates a little above the modern Nasrieh.

The other arm of the bifurcation, situated farther south, and beginning at the Terek-tau, is double; it consists of the Alai and Trans-Alai ranges, continued westwards in the Karateghin, Zarafshan, Hissar and Turkestan ranges, though orographically the Trans-Alai ought probably to be described as the border-ridge of the Pamir plateau.

These curious appendages (Aphlebiae), at first regarded as parasitic growths, have been compared with the feathery outgrowths which occur on the rachis in the Cyatheaceous genus Hemitelia, and with the 'anomalous pinnules found in certain species of Gleichenia, at the points of bifurcation of the frond.

The talk also focused on selected topics of current interest, including the effect of thermal noise on bifurcation to convection and spatiotemporal chaos.

The most frequently used example is the unstable manifold of a periodic orbit that just lost its stability in a period-doubling bifurcation.

At the present time the preservation of the embankments about the point of bifurcation demands the constant care of the Bagdad government.

Fortoul's expedient of " bifurcation," the alternatives being letters and science.

There one finds a similar behavior in the local and the global bifurcation.

The equilibrium is supposed to undergo a reversible pitchfork bifurcation, controlled by the system's parameter.

After this there is a bifurcation of the hinder branch, thus producing three tines.

At Wijk another bifurcation takes place, the broad Lek diverging on the left to join the Maas, while the "Kromme Rijn" to the right is comparatively insignificant.

The curriculum is classical and philological, but in the two upper classes there is a bifurcation in favour of scientific subjects for those who wish.