The term bifurcate means to divide a whole into two parts or sections. Bifurcate is a term used in a variety of fields in the technology industry, including computer science, programming, and biometric security.

With biometrics, specifically fingerprint scanning, a bifurcation is the point at which two ridges on a fingerprint meet.

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