ramification

ramification is a 12-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 22 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

12 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 22 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
2. noun. A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
3. noun. A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
4. noun. The production of branchlike figures.
5. noun. the act of branching out or dividing into branches

   Synonyms: branching, fork, forking

6. noun. an arrangement of branching parts
7. noun. a development that complicates a situation

   "the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications"

   Synonyms: complication

8. noun. a part of a forked or branching shape

   "he broke off one of the branches"

   Synonyms: branch, leg

Synonyms

branching, fork, forking, complication, branch, leg

Common word forms

ramifications

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