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Bifurcation means the splitting of a main body into two parts.

Bifurcation or Bifurcated may refer to:

• Bifurcation (law), the division of issues in a trial for example the division of a page into two parts.
• Bifurcation theory, the study of bifurcation in dynamical systems
• River bifurcation, the forking of a river into its tributaries
• Tongue bifurcation, a type of body modification, or natural occurrence in some animals
• False dilemma or bifurcation, in which two alternative statements are held to be the only possible options when there are more options
• Bifurcation in context of clothing: clothing which separately covers each leg (such as trousers) is called bifurcated clothing, while clothing which covers them jointly (such as skirt) is called unbifurcated clothing.
• Bifurcation of an incompressible flow, modeled by squeeze mapping the fluid flow
• Bifurcated bonding, in which a single hydrogen atom participates in two hydrogen bonds.
• Bifurcation in the context of smoke plumes: The smoke plume reaches a horizontal object and splits into two, smoke plume bifurcation.

[edit] See also

• Fork (disambiguation)
• Piasecki Aircraft Corporation

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