RAMIFICATION meaning: Consequence stemming from an action

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word ramification:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

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ramification: Wordnik
ramification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ramification: Wiktionary
ramification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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ramification: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ramification (botany), Ramification (disambiguation), Ramification (mathematics), Ramification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Ramification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ramification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ramification: Rhymezone
ramification, ramification (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ramification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Business (1 matching dictionary)

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)

ramification: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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ramification: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

Botanical Terms (No longer online)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Ramification: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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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.

Opposite:

simplification, clarification, uncomplication

Types:

consequence, result, outcome, effect, implication, repercussion, more...

Phrases:

ramification index, ramification group, ramification point, more...

Adjectives:

important, further, terminal, extensive, widest, second, possible, political, complex, interesting, whole

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