The act of branching out or dividing into branches.

synoniemen: branching, fork, forking.

Roget 291: divergence, divergency^†; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation etc. (disjunction) 44; dispersion etc. 73; deviation etc. 279; aberration.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 242: symmetry, shapeliness, finish; beauty etc. 845; proportion, eurythmy^†, uniformity, parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality etc. 222.    arborescence^†, branching, ramification; arbor vitae.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 91: bisection, bipartition; dichotomy, subdichotomy^†; halving etc. v.; dimidiation^†.    bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork, prong; fold.    half, moiety.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 205: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle^†, vein; hair, capillament^†, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet^†, venula^†, venule^†.    wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.    strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.    beard etc. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: splitsing, vertakking

A part of a forked or branching shape.

synoniemen: branch, leg.

Roget 51: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.    piece [Fr.], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop^†, slice, scale; lamina etc. 204; small part; morsel, particle etc. (smallness) 32; installment, dividend; share etc. (allotment) 786.    debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta^†; member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump; component part etc. 56; sarmentum^†.    compartment; department etc. (class) 75; county etc. (region) 181.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 167: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.    child, son, daughter; butcha^†; bantling, scion; acrospire^†, plumule^†, shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit^†, branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.    straight descent, sonship^†, line, lineage, filiation^†, primogeniture.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: bedrijfstak, branch, filiaal, tak, vertakking

A development that complicates a situation:
— The court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications.

synoniem: complication.

Nederlands: complicatie, verwikkeling
Pools: zagmatwanie się, poplątanie się, zawikłanie się, skomplikowanie się, pogmatwanie się, powikłanie się, zapętlenie się, pokomplikowanie się

An arrangement of branching parts.