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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



... genealogical ramification, when it is authentic, is a condition of a pretty far advanced state of civilisation. Abandoning the old fabulous genealogies which went back among the Biblical patriarchs, the rigid antiquaries of Ireland find their way through authentic sources to genealogical connections of a truly ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton

... details started into life. In her researches for the biography she had patiently followed every ramification of her subject, and one of these overgrown paths now led her back to the episode in question. The great Orestes's title of "Doctor" had in fact not been merely the spontaneous tribute of a national admiration; he had actually studied medicine ...
— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... sections of the fertilised ovary before mentioned, I found the basal portion entirely destitute of ovules, their place being substituted by transparent cellular ramification of the placentae. As I traced the placentae upwards, the ovules appeared, becoming gradually more abundant towards its apex. A transverse section near the apex of the ovary, however, still exhibited a more than ordinary placental development—i.e. [congenitally?] ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... exchange of products—circulation of the blood—throughout the whole body social, that effect personal and mental intercourse between man and man. They are, consequently, highly calculated to establish an equal level of well-being and culture throughout society. The extension and ramification of the most perfect means of transportation and communication into the remotest corners of the land is, accordingly, a necessity and a matter of general social interest. On this field there arise before the new social system tasks that go far ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... these two assumed truths produces a third assumption, and so on in infinite series, to the unspeakable benefit of the human intellect. The beauty of this process is, that at every step it strikes out into two branches, in a compound ratio of ramification; so that you are perfectly sure of losing your way, and keeping your mind in perfect health, by the perpetual exercise of an interminable quest; and for these reasons I have christened my eldest son Emanuel ...
— Nightmare Abbey • Thomas Love Peacock


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