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wikipedia|ramification (botany)
Pronunciation
IPA|/�ɹæm�fɪ�keɪ��n/, SAMPA|/%r{m@fI"keIS@n/

Noun
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1. A consequence or development complicating a problem.
2. math An arrangement of branches.
3. botany The divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, meaning trunk into branches, branches into increasingly smaller branches and so on.

Quotations
:[1] "Michelstaedter traces the ramifications of rhetoric only to defend the possibility of persuasion." (Carlo Michelstaedter and the Metaphysics of Will)
:[2] "In mathematics, ramification is a geometric term used for 'branching out', in the way that the square root function, for complex numbers, can be seen to have two branches differing in sign."

Translations
trans-top|consequence or development complicating a problem
Finnish: seuraamus, seurannaisvaikutus
German: Auswirkung f, Konsequenz f, Verästelung f, Verzweigung f, Ramifikation f
Italian: ramificazione f
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trans-top|divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones
Czech: rozv�tvení n
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