bifurcation vs branching

bifurcation and branching both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bifurcation	Yes	No	No	No
branching	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, branching is a hypernym of bifurcation; that is, branching is a word with a broader meaning than bifurcation:

Other hypernyms of bifurcation include fork, forking, ramification.

bifurcation (noun)	branching (noun)
the act of splitting into two branches	the act of branching out or dividing into branches
the place where something divides into two branches
a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

bifurcation (adjective)	branching (adjective)
	having branches
	resembling the branches of a tree