bifurcation
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
Types & categories
- ramification hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bifurcation part holonym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
the place where something divides into two branches
Types & categories
- forking hypernym
Parts & wholes
- bifurcation part meronym
Related & opposite
- bifurcate derivation
Sense 3 noun
the act of splitting into two branches
Types & categories
- branching hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bifurcate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bifurcate |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | bifurcation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | ramification |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | bifurcate |
| 2 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | bifurcation |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | forking |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bifurcate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | bifurcate |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | branching |