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(1):

(n.) A cutting in two; a division.

(2):

(n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.

(3):

(n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.

(4):

(n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.

(5):

(n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.

(6):

(n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.