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A bifurcation is the split itself — the moment or the place where one road, river, or path becomes two. You can stand at a bifurcation and choose left or right. Writers also stretch it: a bifurcation in a story, in a party, in a set of numbers. Same picture: one line, then two. It is a formal noun; everyday English prefers fork (a fork in the road) or split.
分岔、分叉處（一分為二的那個點或那段過程）
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bifurcationnoun/ˌbaɪfəˈkeɪʃən/
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biologynatural-sciencesA division into two branches.
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Any place where one thing divides into two.
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The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
- “Get away from me, freak.” “Actually, my designation is Logic-y. I take issue with the pejorative when I am simply a product of your self-inflicted bifurcation.”
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Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
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geographynatural-sciencesA place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
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nauticaltransportThe point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
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mathematicssciencesThe change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
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computercomputingengineeringA command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。