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A forking, or division into two branches.
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Splitting a trial into two parts: a liability phase and a penalty phase. In some cases, a new jury may be empaneled to deliberate for the penalty phase.
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A node in a tree that connects exactly three branches. If the tree is directed (rooted), then one of the branches represents an ancestral lineage and the other two branches represent descendant lineages.
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The splitting of an ancestral lineage into two or more daughter lineages.
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a division into two or more branches
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Dividing into two branches or two parts.
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division of a single structure (usually vascular) into two paired structures, e.g., carotid bifurcation in the neck, where the common carotid arteries divide into the internal and external carotid arteries
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The graphical representation in a phylogenetic tree of an evolutionary speciation event whereby an ancestral taxon splits into two.
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a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)
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the place where something divides into two branches
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the act of splitting into two branches
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a forking of a time series into two complementary opposites that grow together in time but in opposite directions
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a ridge that splits into two ridges and is symbolized with a square
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a Y-shaped split of one ridge into two
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The splitting or branching of possible states that a system can assume due to changing parameters.
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A point at which a system splits into two alternative behaviours, either being possible, the one actually followed often being indeterminate (unpredictable). Related to catastrophes in Catastrophe Theory.
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branching, or splitting, as in the branches of a tree, or a fork
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The point of division into two or more roots as found on molars and some premolars. Implies a division into two roots.
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The division of a channel into two.
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refers to a point base that is split
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A branch made by more than one finger image ridge.
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having two branches or divisions
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The observed branching of stream channels into more numerous and smaller tributaries in the upstream direction.
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To bifurcate means to split apart. In dynamics, bifurcation often means a change in the structure of orbits. For example, two new fixed points may "bifurcate" away from a given fixed point. Or an attracting n-cycle may bifurcate away from a fixed point.
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Location where a RIVER separates in two or more reaches or branches (the opposite of a CONFLUENCE).
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Or branching. Viewed in phase space a system may be seen to bifurcate when initial conditions are infused. Initial conditions can be generated within the system or infused from without. Because most chaoists see the universe as entirely deterministic there is only one large system.
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Juncture of two (three) roots in posterior teeth
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A division of a vessel into two branches.
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the point at which division into two branches occurs
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A seperation into two branches; the point of forking.
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Bifurcation means division into two branches; the site where a single structure divides into two.
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The splitting of a single mode of a system's behavior into two new modes.
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