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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being trifurcate; a trifurcate shape, formation, or arrangement.

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  • noun A division into three branches.

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  • noun the act of splitting into three branches

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Examples

  • It's beacuse they saw analytical distinctions between the factors (which I think are brought out most clearly in Rothbard's "Man, Economy, and State"), which make their trifurcation useful and even necessary.

    Unionization's Decline, a Human Capital Story, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Artistic bi - and trifurcation appear for some reason to be more common among musicians.

    Unforgettable in More Than One Way Terry Teachout 2010

  • The long answer: The seed for said title was planted a few years ago when a glaring bifurcation or trifurcation became evident in my "practice."

    Timothy Hull: QQ2 With Chris Vasell Timothy Hull 2010

  • The long answer: The seed for said title was planted a few years ago when a glaring bifurcation or trifurcation became evident in my "practice."

    Timothy Hull: QQ2 With Chris Vasell Timothy Hull 2010

  • He said major political parties including congress and BJP advocate for smaller states to ensure equitable development of all the areas and all sections in the country but ironically the leaders belonging to these political parties remain silent and do not support the demand for trifurcation of the state.

    After Telangana Jammu Morcha urge Jummuties to start struggle for separate Statehood 2009

  • Only Zardari's call for the unity and integrity of the federation, and for the PPP to express itself at the allot box and not on the street, saved Pakistan from bloodshed and bifurcation or trifurcation.

    Farahnaz Ispahani: One Year of the Zardari Presidency 2009

  • Next door Iraq has missed the opportunity for a viable trifurcation into Sunni, Shi'ite and Kurdish zones.

    Gaming for the Fiery Tomorrow 2007

  • In practical terms, the result was the effective trifurcation of the marketplace.

    Flash ModesittJr_LE 2004

  • The team's mission would be to "inform the Iraqi public about the USG [U.S. government]/coalition intent and operations; stabilize Iraq [especially preventing the trifurcation of Iraq after hostilities]; and provide Iraqis hope for their future," according to a Jan. 16, 2003, Pentagon white paper that was released years ago by the National Security Archive, a research group at George Washington University.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com 2011

  • The trifurcation of exchange rates is "a symbolic defeat" and "embarrassing for the leadership," which has spent two decades trying to eliminate such differentials, said Kevan Harris, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University who visits Iran often.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2012

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