Bifurcation

The word bifurcation (from latin bifurcare, to split into two forks) has several related meanings.

A river bifurcation is the infrequently observed forking of a river into distributaries.
A bifurcation can be a qualitative change of the attractor of a dynamical system as the result of a moving parameter, in particular it can refer to a period-doubling bifurcation.
A bifurcation can be the division of issues in a trial.
The partial or total splitting of a human penis for pleasurable or decorative reasons.
The partial or total splitting of a human tongue for pleasurable or decorative reasons.

See also: fork

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Bifurcation

See also: Bifurcation, Attractor, Distributary, Dynamical system, Fork (disambiguation), Latin, Parameter, Penis, River