bifurcates

Verb

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.
   • 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...1964 December, “Southern raises capacity of Borough Market Junction”, in Modern Railways, page 417
2. (transitive) To cause to bifurcate.
   • 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.2021 January 22, Lilah Raptopoulos, “My tug-of-war with algorithms”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2021

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