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Ramification \Ram`i*fi*ca"tion\
(r[a^]m`[i^]*f[i^]*k[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. [Cf. F. ramification.
See Ramify.]

1. The process of branching, or the development of branches
or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their
arrangement.
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2. A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or
channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or
nerve.
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3. A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads,
or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as,
the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
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4. The production of branchlike figures. --Crabb.
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ramification
n 1: the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn:
branching, ramification, fork, forking]

2: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of
the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification]

3: a development that complicates a situation; "the court's
decision had many unforeseen ramifications" [syn:
complication, ramification]

4: an arrangement of branching parts
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ramification [ræmifikeiʃən]
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "ramification":
V, appendage, arborescence, arborization, arm, bifidity, biforking,
bifurcation, bine, bipartition, bisection, bough, branch,
branchedness, branchiness, branching, branching off, burgeon,
by two, complexity, complexness, complication, consequence,
convolution, crabbedness, crotch, crutch, cutting in two, deadwood,
delta, dichotomy, difficulty, dimidiation, divarication, division,
effect, entanglement, extension, fan, flagellum, fork, forking,
frond, furcation, furcula, furculum, groin, halving, hand, imp,
implication, in half, inguen, intricacy, intricateness, involution,
involvement, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member,
offshoot, organ, outgrowth, perplexity, pinion, prong, ramage,
result, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig,
sprit, sprout, spur, stem, stolon, subdivision, subtlety, sucker,
switch, tail, tanglement, technicality, tendril, thallus,
treelikeness, trident, trifurcation, twig, upshot, wing,
wishbone



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