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branching
CIDE DICTIONARY
branching, a.
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. [1913 Webster]
"Shaded with branching palm." [1913 Webster]
branching, n.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. [1913 Webster]
"The sciences, with their numerous branchings." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
branching
V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggyROGET THESAURUS
branching
bisection
N bisection, bipartition, dichotomy, subdichotomy, halving, dimidiation, bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication, fork, prong, fold, half, moiety, bisected, cloven, cleft, bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid, bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated, distichous, dichotomous, furcular, semi-, demi-, hemi.Symmetry
N symmetry, shapeliness, finish, beauty, proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism, bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry, centrality, arborescence, branching, ramification, arbor vitae, symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished, beautiful, classic, chaste, severe, regular, uniform, balanced, equal, parallel, coextensive, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, branching, ramous, ramose, filiciform, filicoid, subarborescent, papilionaceous, fuji-shaped, fujigata, symmetry, shapeliness, finish, beauty, proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism, bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry, centrality, arborescence, branching, ramification, arbor vitae, symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished, beautiful, classic, chaste, severe, regular, uniform, balanced, equal, parallel, coextensive, arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, branching, ramous, ramose, filiciform, filicoid, subarborescent, papilionaceous, fuji-shaped, fujigata.For further exploring for "branching" in Webster Dictionary Online