ramification

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.

   “The character of trees may be studied to advantage […] in winter, when the forms of the ramification can be seen in the naked boughs […]”

2. isim An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.

   “The treachery of some of the Jacobite agents (Rashleigh among the rest), and the arrest of others, had made George the First's Government acquainted with the extensive ramifications of a conspiracy long prepared, and which at last exploded prematurely […]”

3. isim An arrangement of branches.