Meaning of BRANCHING
| Pronunciation: | | br'anching
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- [n] the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- [adj] resembling the branches of a tree
- [adj] having branches
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| | Synonyms: | | branched, branchy, divergent, diverging, fork, forking, ramate, ramification, ramose, ramous |
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| | See Also: | | bifurcation, divarication, division, fibrillation, trifurcation | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Branch"ing\, a.
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in
a branch or branches.
Shaded with branching palm. --Milton.
\Branch"ing\, n.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into
branches; a division or branch.
The sciences, with their numerous branchings. --L.
Watts.
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| | Related Terms: | | arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, treelike, treelikeness, tree-shaped, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggy, V-shaped, Y-shaped |
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