Branching
['bræntʃɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of branching out or dividing into branches.
(adj.) resembling the branches of a tree .
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Branch
(a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
(n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ramification, arborescence.
a. Arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendritic.
Edited by Craig
Examples
- A stone-flagged passage, with the kitchens branching away from it, led by a wooden staircase directly to the first floor of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Slipping quietly through this opening I discovered a maze of winding corridors, branching and turning in every direction. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The branching and diverging dotted lines of unequal lengths proceeding from (A), may represent its varying offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In certain genera of star-fishes, the very combinations needed to show that the pedicellariae are only modified branching spines may be found. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The young tadpole has branching external gills that wave in the water; then a gill cover grows back over them and forms a gill chamber. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mixed minerals will often intercrystallize in blobs or branching shapes that are very suggestive of simple plant or animal forms. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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