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ramify 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/ˈraməˌfī/,
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ramified, past participle; ramifies, 3rd person singular present; ramifying, present participle; ramified, past tense;
  1. Form branches or offshoots; spread or branch out
    • - an elaborate system of canals was built, ramifying throughout Britain
  2. Cause to branch or spread out
    • - a ramified genealogical network
  1. complexify: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify"
  2. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  3. branch: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks"
  4. (ramification) branching: the act of branching out or dividing into branches
  5. (ramification) complication: a development that complicates a situation; "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"
  6. 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. ...
  7. (Ramification (botany)) In botany, ramification is the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, i.e. trunk into branches, branches into increasingly smaller branches, etc. ...
  8. To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme
  9. (Ramification) The process of making parts of trees/plants smaller is called ramification. This is usually accomplished through pruning. (ie. Making a tree into a bonsai variant).
  10. (Ramification) What made Mary have a little lamb. - Joseph Leff
  11. (ramification) Effect, consequence, result.
  12. (ramification) the problem of deriving indirect consequences of an action. For example, if a book is on a table and the table is moved, the book is moved.
  13. Ramification is the splitting of branches and twigs into smaller ones. It is encouraged by pruning and may be integrated with practices that promote leaf reduction.
  14. (ramified) divided or branched out
  15. Latin ramus = a branch; and facere = to make; hence, to branch.