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ramification

Pronunciation: /ʁa.mi.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

“ramification” is a French word. Its 3 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a (criminal) network, offshoots of an (often clandestine) organization
  2. ramification, implication
  3. ramification

In French

  1. Division en plusieurs rameaux.
  2. Chacun des rameaux produits.
  3. Subdivisions d’une science, d’une étude.
  4. Embranchement, extension d’une secte, d’un complot.
  5. Branche formée par des atomes qui se distinguent par rapport à la chaîne principale.
  6. Division d’un projet en plusieurs branches, et par métonymie, l’une de ces branches.

Etymology

From ramifier + -ification.

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