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quadfurcation

noun

Etymology

From quad- + furcation.

  1. derived from furca
  2. borrowed from furcātus
  3. suffixed as furcation — “furcate + ion”
  4. prefixed as quadfurcation — “quad + furcation”

Definitions

  1. A forking or division into four branches.

    • The path length in comparison to the vector length defines a length-tortuosity parameter. Trifurcations and quadfurcations can be expressed as segments without length.
    • Is it possible that architecture can mutate into equal parts GPS, abstract machine, event horizon, and vague placeform, a kind of quadfurcation of the purpose of building?
    • As a consequence, points are classified as loose, end- or midpoints, or as bi-, tri- or quadfurcations, depending on the number of direct neighbor points.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for quadfurcation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA