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branching

 
Adjective branching has 2 senses
  1. branched, branching, ramose, ramous, ramate - having branches
    Antonym: branchless (indirect, via branchy)
  2. branching - resembling the branches of a tree
    Antonym:
    convergent (indirect, via divergent)
Noun branching has 1 sense
  1. branching, ramification, fork, forking - the act of branching out or dividing into branches
    --1 is a kind of division
    --1 has particulars: bifurcation; trifurcation; divarication; fibrillation
Verb branch has 2 senses
  1. ramify, branch - grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
    --1 is one way to grow
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
  2. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
    --2 is one way to diverge
    Derived forms: noun branch3, noun branch5
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s
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