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語源

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

発音

• (Verb):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbaɪfəˌkeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA: /ˈbaɪfɚˌkeɪt/
• (Adjective):
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /baɪˈfɛːkɪt/, /baɪˈfɛːkeɪt/
  • (General American) IPA: /baɪˈfɚkət/, /baɪˈfɚkeɪt/
  • 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)kɪt
• ハイフネーション: bi‧fur‧cate

動詞

bifurcate (third-person singular simple present bifurcates, present participle bifurcating, simple past and past participle bifurcated)

1. (intransitive) To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
   • 1964 December, “Southern raises capacity of Borough Market Junction”, in Modern Railways, page 417:

     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. (transitive) To cause to bifurcate.
   • 2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times‎, archived from the original on 22 January 2021:

     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.

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bifurcate (not comparable)

1. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
2. Having bifurcations.

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