bifurcation vs gore

bifurcation

noun
  • A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet. 

  • The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two. 

  • The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward. 

  • A division into two branches. 

  • Any place where one thing divides into two. 

  • Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division. 

  • A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition. 

  • The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory. 

gore

noun
  • A triangular piece of land where roads meet. 

  • Dirt; mud; filth. 

  • A projecting point. 

  • A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail, skirt, hot-air balloon, etc.ᵂᵖ 

  • One of the abatements, made of two inwardly curved lines, meeting in the fesse point. 

  • Murder, bloodshed, violence. 

  • A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error. 

  • The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe 

  • An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe. 

  • Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air. 

verb
  • To cut in a triangular form. 

  • To provide with a gore. 

  • To pierce with the horn. 

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