ramification
[ram-uh-fi-key-shuh n]
- the act or process of ramifying.
- a branch: ramifications of a nerve.
- a related or derived subject, problem, etc.; outgrowth; consequence; implication: The new tax law proved to have many ramifications unforeseen by the lawmakers.
- Botany.
- a structure formed of branches.
- a configuration of branching parts.
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Origin of ramification
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Contemporary Examples
Getting students to games clearly has ramifications beyond the walls of the stadium.
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October 31, 2014
You saw the ramifications of that shooting impact our hero and the other characters throughout the season.
Inside 'Sons of Anarchy's' Final Season: Creator Kurt Sutter on the Most Brutal Season YetAnnaliza Savage
September 10, 2014
And we never really played out the idea of the ramifications of all these arms they sell.
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September 10, 2014
The weight of the low bar for conviction has ramifications that extend far beyond campus.
“You have a low standard that is at best flawed, and you have a lifetime of ramifications,” says Miltenberg.
Historical Examples
I am always conscious of that, Joe; the ramifications of public life are innumerable.
The Burning SpearJohn Galsworthy
There is no hamlet so small as not to be touched by their ramifications.
Her influence is felt everywhere, throughout the ramifications of our "Order."
It is simple in its manifestations, but most complex in its organization and in its ramifications.
Electricity for BoysJ. S. Zerbe
But of its motive, of its ramifications, or of its conception, I had no knowledge.
The Stretton Street AffairWilliam Le Queux
ramification
- the act or process of ramifying or branching out
- an offshoot or subdivision
- (often plural) a subsidiary consequence, esp one that complicates
- a structure of branching parts
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Word Origin and History for ramifications
ramification
n.
1670s, "a branching out," from French ramification, from ramifier (see ramify). Transferred sense of "outgrowth, consequence" first recorded 1755. Related: Ramifications.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
ramification
(răm′ə-fĭ-kā′shən)- A branching shape or arrangement.
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