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Furcation

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The act or process of furcating; a forking or branching out.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A branching like a fork.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A forking; a branching like the tines of a fork; also, that which branches off; a division.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the place where something divides into branches

Word Usage

"In reality, however, this "furcation," which was formerly regarded as a very mysterious process, is nothing but the familiar, repeated cell-segmentation."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

angular shape angularity

Hyponym

bifurcation