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Definition of Trifurcation
1. Noun. The act of splitting into three branches.
Definition of Trifurcation
1. Noun. A division into three branches. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Trifurcation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Trifurcation
1. 1. A division into three branches. 2. The area where the tooth roots divide into three distinct portions. Origin: tri-+ L. Furca, fork. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trifurcation
Literary usage of Trifurcation
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)
"We write Tx for the event that x is a trifurcation. By translation-invariance,
the probability of Tx does not depend on the choice of x, and thus we set r ..."
2. Japan: Travels and Researches Undertaken at the Cost of the Prussian Government by Johannes Justus Rein (1884)
"... which is principally distinguished by a peculiar trifurcation of the long anal
fins, viz., that besides the perpendicular steering-fin there are two ..."
3. Annales des sciences naturelles by Adolphe Brongniart, Antoine Guillemin, Joseph Decaisne, Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem, Julien Costantin, Pierre Allorge, Louis Blaringhem (1848)
"Les plus gros se subdivisent, bientôt en 3 par la formation de 2 rayons médullaires
dans leur intérieur; les plu> petits éprouvent la même trifurcation , et ..."
4. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... phrase we have not used—black, yellow, and white; and it was commonly thought
that these represented a very ancient trifurcation of the human species. ..."
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