Definition of Trifurcations

1. Noun. (plural of trifurcation) ¹

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Definition of Trifurcations

1. trifurcation [n] - See also: trifurcation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifurcations

triforia
triforium
triform
triformed
triformity
trifunctional
trifunctionality
trifunctionally
trifuran
trifurans
trifurcate
trifurcated
trifurcates
trifurcating
trifurcation
trifurcations (current term)
trig
trig point
trig points
trigamies
trigamist
trigamists
trigamous
trigamy
trigastric
trigeminal
trigeminal caudal nucleus
trigeminal cave
trigeminal cavity
trigeminal crest

Literary usage of Trifurcations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dynamics & Stochastics: Festschrift in Honour of M.S. Keane by M. S. Keane, Dee Denteneer, F. den Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy (2006)
"The mean number of trifurcations inside A is r|A|. This implies a contradiction, as indicated by the following rough argument. Select a trifurcation (ti, ..."

2. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1826)
"... those of the Texas and la Sonora, which renders the separation of the chains more imperfect than the trifurcations of the Andes in South America. ..."

3. A treatise on zoology. by E. Ray Lankester (1901)
"... always came off in 3's, and the subsequent branching is also in 3's; after six such trifurcations the finest capillaries terminate in flame cells. ..."

4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"Submersed leaves with filiform segments which are rather short, diverge greatly at thcir trifurcations, ..."

5. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Kansas Geological Survey (1897)
"Bifurcations and trifurcations in the mass are frequent and different vertical masses are frequently connected by radiating lines as though there was a ..."

6. A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (vertebrata.) by Thomas Jeffery Parker (1906)
"The perforating tendons of the second, third, and fourth digits are all formed by the trifurcations of a single tendon, lying deeper than the perforated ..."

7. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1897)
"Bifurcations and trifurcations in the mass are frequent and different vertical masses are frequently connected by radiating lines as though there was a ..."

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