Usually means: Consequence stemming from an action.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ramification: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ramification: Merriam-Webster
  3. ramification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ramification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ramification: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ramification: Vocabulary.com
  7. ramification: Wordnik
  8. ramification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ramification: Wiktionary
  10. ramification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ramification: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. ramification: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. ramification: Dictionary.com
  14. ramification: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ramification (botany), Ramification (disambiguation), Ramification (mathematics), Ramification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ramification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ramification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ramification: Rhymezone
  19. ramification, ramification (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ramification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ramification: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ramification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ramification: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ramification: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ramification: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ramification: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Ramification: MedFriendly Glossary
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  5. ramification: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. ramification: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ramification: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (botany, anatomy, also figurative) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
noun:  (figurative, often in the plural) An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
noun:  (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.

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