Synonyms of the word

branching

• v. present participle of branch.
• n. A process of forming a branch.

branched

• adj. Having branches.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of branch.

branchy

• adj. Having many branches.
• adj. Tending to branch frequently.

divergent

• adj. Growing further apart; diverging.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
• adj. Disagreeing from something given; differing.
• adj. Causing divergence of rays.

diverging

• v. present participle of diverge.

division

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
• n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
• n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
• n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• n. A section of a large company.
• n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
• n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
• n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
• n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

fork

• n. A pronged tool having a long straight handle, used for digging, lifting, throwing etc.
• n. (obsolete) A gallows.
• n. A utensil with spikes used to put solid food into the mouth, or to hold food down while cutting.
• n. A tuning fork.
• n. An intersection in a road or path where one road is split into two.
• n. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc…
• n. A point where a waterway, such as a river, splits and goes two (or more) different directions.
• n. (geography) Used in the names of some river tributaries, e.g. West Fork White River and East Fork White…
• n. (figuratively) A point in time where one has to make a decision between two life paths.
• n. (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a…
• n. (computer science) A splitting-up of an existing process into itself and a child process executing parts…
• n. (computer science) An event where development of some free software or open-source software is split into…
• n. (computer science) The, or one of the, software project(s) that underwent changes in such an event; a…
• n. (Britain) Crotch.
• n. (colloquial) A forklift.
• n. The individual blades of a forklift.
• n. (cycling) In a bicycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer…
• v. To divide into two or more branches.
• v. (transitive) To move with a fork (as hay or food).
• v. (computer science) To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process.
• v. (computer science) To split a (software) project into several projects.
• v. (computer science) To split a (software) distributed version control repository.
• v. (Britain) To kick someone in the crotch.
• v. To shoot into blades, as corn does.
• v. Euphemistic form of fuck.

forking

• v. present participle of fork.
• n. division into forks.

ramification

• n. (botany, anatomy) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence…
• n. An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a…
• n. (mathematics) An arrangement of branches.

ramose

• adj. Having branches; branching.

ramous

• adj. Alternative form of ramose.