Synonyms of the word

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.

arrangement

• n. The act of arranging.
• n. The manner of being arranged.
• n. A collection of things that have been arranged.
• n. A particular way in which items are organized.
• n. (in the plural) Preparations for some undertaking.
• n. An agreement.
• n. (music) An adaptation of a piece of music for other instruments, or in another style.

branch

• n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
• n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
• n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US…
• n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
• n. A location of an organization with several locations.
• n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant…
• n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia…
• n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
• n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a…
• n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
• n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build…
• n. (rail transport) A branch line.
• v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
• v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
• v. (intransitive) To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a…

branching

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

complication

• n. The act or process of complicating.
• n. The state of being complicated; intricate or confused relation of parts; complexity.
• n. A person who doesn't fit in with the main scheme of things; an interloper.
• n. (medicine) A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying…
• n. A feature beyond basic time display in a timepiece.

development

• n. (uncountable) The process of developing; growth, directed change.
• n. (uncountable, biology) The process by which a mature multicellular organism or part of an organism is…
• n. (countable) Something which has developed.
• n. (real estate, countable) A project consisting of one or more commercial or residential buildings, real…
• n. (real estate, uncountable) The building of a real estate development.
• n. (uncountable) The application of new ideas to practical problems (cf. research).
• n. (chess, uncountable) The active placement of the pieces, or the process of achieving it.
• n. (music) The second section of a piece of music in sonata form.

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.

leg

• n. The lower limb of a human being or animal that extends from the groin to the ankle.
• n. (anatomy) The portion of the lower appendage of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
• n. A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
• n. A stage of a journey, race etc.
• n. (nautical) A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
• n. (nautical) One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
• n. (sports) A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
• n. (geometry) One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
• n. (geometry) One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
• n. A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, supporting it from underneath.
• n. (usually used in plural) evidence, the ability for a thing or idea to succeed or persist.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic) A disreputable sporting character; a blackleg.
• n. An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes…
• n. In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
• n. (cricket) A fielder whose position is on the outside, a little in rear of the batter.
• n. (telephony) A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
• n. (electrical) A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
• n. (US, slang, military) A soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
• v. To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
• v. To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
• v. To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.

placement

• n. The act of placing or putting in place; the act of locating or positioning; the state of being placed.
• n. A location or position.
• n. The act of matching a person with a job.

subfigure

• n. (geometry) A figure (geometric form) that is part of another.