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Ramification   /rˌæməfəkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Ramification

noun
1.
The act of branching out or dividing into branches.  Synonyms: branching, fork, forking.
2.
A part of a forked or branching shape.  Synonyms: branch, leg.
3.
A development that complicates a situation.  Synonym: complication.
4.
An arrangement of branching parts.





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"Ramification" Quotes from Famous Books



... as not to reward working. Humboldt says that his examination of Guiana gold led him to believe that, 'like tin, it is sometimes disseminated in an almost imperceptible manner in the mass of granite rocks itself, without our being able to admit that there is a ramification and an interlacing of small veins.' It is plain that Raleigh got hold of unusually rich specimens of the sparse auriferous quartz. He was accused on his return of having brought his specimens from Africa, but no one suggested ...
— Raleigh • Edmund Gosse
... to Bormes, 14 m. E. from Hyres. The coach, after passing the ramification southwards to Les Salins, halts a few minutes at La Londe, 7m. E., a little village with an inn, situated on both sides of the St. Tropez road. Shortly afterwards the Bormes and Lavandou road separates from the St. Tropez road, and extends S. through a wood of fir and cork trees. ...
— The South of France—East Half • Charles Bertram Black


Words linked to "Ramification" :   divarication, fibrillation, bifurcation, division, branching, furcation, placement, trifurcation, arrangement, ramify, subfigure, crotch, leg, development, brachium


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