Ramification
[,ræmɪfɪ'keɪʃ(ə)n] or ['ræməfə'keʃən]
Definition
(n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
(n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
(n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
(n.) The production of branchlike figures.
Typist: Willie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Branching, forking, divarication.[2]. Branch, division, subdivision.
Edited by Harold
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Branching, branch, offshoot, division, divergence, subdivision
ANT:Line, trunk, stem, bole, course, thread, sequence, continuity, prosecution,rectilinearity, indivergence, indivision, non-ramification
Typist: Marietta
Examples
- Then you must bring him some evening which is not a Parent Society night, or a Branch night, or a Ramification night. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We have a Ramification meeting, too, on Wednesday afternoon, and the inconvenience is very serious. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was some kind of conspiracy with the Government people which I could not make out, but I heard messages that opened my eyes as to the ramifications of Wall Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Of the entire business, in all its ramifications, this machine is the most important not only from a technical standpoint, but as regards both the pleasure and safety of the public. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- As the art of telegraphy grows apace toward the end of the Nineteenth Century, individuality of invention becomes lost in the great maze of modifications, ramifications, and combinations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checker: Ophelia