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TRIFURCATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trifurcation mean?
• TRIFURCATION (noun)
The noun TRIFURCATION has 1 sense:
1. the act of splitting into three branches
Familiarity information: TRIFURCATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of splitting into three branches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("trifurcation" is a kind of...):
branching; fork; forking; ramification (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)
Derivation:
trifurcate (divide into three)
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