bifurcate
/ˈbaɪfɚˌkeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.72 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Elizabeth's disturbing presentation of herself as both virginal and sexual bifurcated after her death into opinion about whether she was virginal or sexual, so that on the one hand Elizabeth was apotheosized as the saint who through her refusal to marry had kept England Protestant and free, while on the other hand she was still the object of detraction by persons such as “one Sheapheard, a barrister of Lincolns Inn, [and] a base Jesuited papist,” who during James I's reign uttered ”base and scandalous” words regarding the late queen's honor."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: bi
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbaɪfɚˌkeɪt/
- British English: /ˈbaɪfəˌkeɪt/