BRANCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does branching mean? 

• BRANCHING (noun)
  The noun BRANCHING has 1 sense:

1. the act of branching out or dividing into branches

  Familiarity information: BRANCHING used as a noun is very rare.

• BRANCHING (adjective)
  The adjective BRANCHING has 2 senses:

1. having branches

2. resembling the branches of a tree

  Familiarity information: BRANCHING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRANCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of branching out or dividing into branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

branching; fork; forking; ramification

Hypernyms ("branching" is a kind of...):

division (the act or process of dividing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "branching"):

bifurcation (the act of splitting into two branches)

trifurcation (the act of splitting into three branches)

divarication (branching at a wide angle)

fibrillation (act or process of forming fibrils)

• BRANCHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having branches

Synonyms:

branched; branching; ramate; ramose; ramous

Similar:

branchy (having many branches)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Resembling the branches of a tree

Similar:

divergent; diverging (tending to move apart in different directions)

 Context examples 

The arteries branching off of the horizontal or M1 segment of the middle cerebral artery in both hemispheres that supply the caudate nucleus and lentiform nucleus.

(Lateral Lenticulostriate Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

An artery branching from the extremity of the middle cerebral artery that supplies the lateral cortex and inferior frontal lobe.

(Lateral Orbitofrontal Artery, NCI Thesaurus)

Proteins that specifically bind to the branching sugar molecules of glycoproteins and glycolipids on cell surfaces to cause biochemical changes.

(Lectin, NCI Thesaurus)

Branching or elongation of crypts with some reduction of interglandular stroma containing cells with low nuclear to cytoplasm ratio.

(Low Grade Flat Tubular Dysplasia of the Mouse Intestinal Tract, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A finding indicating the presence of Barrett esophagus in which there is marked nuclear pleomorphism and loss of polarity, increased number of atypical mitotic figures, and crypt budding, branching, and crowding.

(High Grade Dysplasia in Barrett Esophagus, NCI Thesaurus)

A type of graph similar to a radial layout, but compressed to fit rapidly-branching networks.

(Graph Combinatorial Layout, NCI Thesaurus)

A somatic nerve branching from the ophthalmic nerve that innervates the forehead, eye lids and frontal sinus.

(Frontal Nerve, NCI Thesaurus)

There is marked glandular crowding, branching and budding, intraluminal necrosis, and prominent mitotic activity.

(Gastric Intramucosal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

An architectural morphologic finding indicating branching of glands as a result of a pathologic process.

(Gland Branching, NCI Thesaurus)

The arteries branching off of the proximal middle cerebral artery that supply the medial region of the putamen and the globus pallidus.

(Medial Lenticulostriate Artery, NCI Thesaurus)