Separation vs Bifurcation - What's the difference?
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The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
The place at which a division occurs.
An interval, gap or space that separates things.
(legal) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
(military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.
(biology) A division into two branches.
(by extension) Any place where one thing divides into two.
The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
(geography) A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
(nautical) The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
(mathematics) The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as decribed by bifurcation theory.
(computer science) A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.