bifurcates

This term bifurcates what is actually a closed system, dividing humanity from the Earth.

April 22, 1970 �� Oil Day: Wake up and smell the fumes. 2007

Reality bifurcates and splinters every second and sometimes, with a shudder and whip, a person can jump the tracks over onto the wrong set of rails.

365 tomorrows » Duncan Shields : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

The car rides low and stolid, like a limo, probably because its main battery, which runs the length of the chassis and bifurcates the rear seat, limiting the likelihood of three passengers or recumbent teenage sex also weighs as much as a fully stocked Maytag refrigerator.

Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt Gene Weingarten 2011

The author lacks the sophistication and delicate plotting of John Le Carré or Graham Greene, both of decidedly left-wing sympathies, and instead bifurcates his story with appealing characters of proper political outlook on one side and reactionary villains on the other.

Tattooed by Politics Michael C. Moynihan 2011

So expect new models to emerge to support that need, and lots of opportunity surrounding the video space as the market bifurcates.

Steve Rosenbaum: YouTube And The Death Of User-Generated Content Steve Rosenbaum 2011

Reality bifurcates and splinters every second and sometimes, with a shudder and whip, a person can jump the tracks over onto the wrong set of rails.

365 tomorrows » 2010 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

It simply wastes space and bifurcates everything for the home user.

Matthew Yglesias » Density and Building Height 2010

The Irminger Current bifurcates off the northern west coast of Iceland.

Fisheries and aquaculture in the Central North Atlantic (Iceland and Greenland) 2009

Our pulmonary bronchial tree bifurcates and branches like your ginger root example, so that the airways get smaller and smaller, down to the capillary bed where the O2 and CO2 exchange occurs.

Self-Similarity in Fractals James Gurney 2009

Moreover, since the coincidentia, understood in the German and other mystical traditions familiar to Kafka as the original Oneness of the pairs of opposites, is precisely what the human mind obscures as it conceptually bifurcates things in order to "get at them," we will be focusing especially on those relatively rare instances in Kafka's fiction in which the mind of the character or persona goes beyond its own intrinsic limits.

Kafka and the Coincidence of Opposites 2007