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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RAMIFICA'TION, n. [L. ramus, a branch.]
1. The process of branching or shooting branches from a stem.
2. A branch; a small division proceeding from a main stock or channel; as the ramifications of a family; the ramifications of an artery.
3. A division or subdivision; as the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
4. In botany, the manner in which a tree produces its branches or boughs.
5. The production of figures resembling branches.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: branching, ramification, fork, forking]
2: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification]
3: a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications" [syn: complication, ramification]
4: an arrangement of branching parts

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1665 1. a. branch, offshoot b. a branched structure 2. a. the act or process of branching b. arrangement of branches (as on a plant) 3. consequence, outgrowth <the ramifications of the decision>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the act or an instance of ramifying; the state of being ramified. 2 a subdivision of a complex structure or process comparable to a tree's branches. Etymology: F f. ramifier: see RAMIFY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ramification Ram`i*fi*ca"tion, n. [Cf. F. ramification. See Ramify.] 1. The process of branching, or the development or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement. 2. A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve. 3. A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications a subject or scheme. 4. The production of branchlike figures. --Crabb.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ramifications) The ramifications of a decision, plan, or event are all its consequences and effects, especially ones which are not obvious at first. The book analyses the social and political ramifications of AIDS for the gay community. N-COUNT: usu pl, oft with poss

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Branching, forking, divarication. 2. Branch, division, subdivision. 3. Offshoot, subordinate branch.

Moby Thesaurus

V, appendage, arborescence, arborization, arm, bifidity, biforking, bifurcation, bine, bipartition, bisection, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, branching, branching off, burgeon, by two, complexity, complexness, complication, consequence, convolution, crabbedness, crotch, crutch, cutting in two, deadwood, delta, dichotomy, difficulty, dimidiation, divarication, division, effect, entanglement, extension, fan, flagellum, fork, forking, frond, furcation, furcula, furculum, groin, halving, hand, imp, implication, in half, inguen, intricacy, intricateness, involution, involvement, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, outgrowth, perplexity, pinion, prong, ramage, result, runner, sarment, scion, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stem, stolon, subdivision, subtlety, sucker, switch, tail, tanglement, technicality, tendril, thallus, treelikeness, trident, trifurcation, twig, upshot, wing, wishbone