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RAMIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of branching out or dividing into branches
Synonyms:
branching; fork; forking; ramification
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("ramification" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ramification"):
bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)
trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)
divarication (branching at a wide angle)
fibrillation (act or process of forming fibrils)
Derivation:
ramify (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
ramify (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An arrangement of branching parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("ramification" is a kind of...):
arrangement; placement (the spatial property of the way in which something is placed)
Derivation:
ramify (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
ramify (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A development that complicates a situation
Example:
the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications
Synonyms:
complication; ramification
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("ramification" is a kind of...):
development (a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation)
Derivation:
ramify (have or develop complicating consequences)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A part of a forked or branching shape
Example:
he broke off one of the branches
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("ramification" is a kind of...):
subfigure (a figure that is a part of another figure)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ramification"):
bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them))
brachium ((biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal)
crotch; fork (the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches)
Holonyms ("ramification" is a part of...):
forking; furcation (the place where something divides into branches)
Derivation:
ramify (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork)
ramify (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures)
