Ramification Definition

rămə-fĭ-kāshən
ramifications
noun
ramifications
A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement.
The ramifications of a court decision.
American Heritage
The act or process of branching out or dividing into branches.
American Heritage
The result of ramifying.
Webster's New World
A ramifying or being ramified; specif., the arrangement of branches or offshoots, as on a plant.
Webster's New World
A subordinate part extending from a main body; a branch.
American Heritage
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Other Word Forms of Ramification

Noun

Singular:
ramification
Plural:
ramifications

Origin of Ramification

  • From Middle French ramification, or its source, the participle stem of Latin ramificare.

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Ramification Sentence Examples

  • He clearly did not think of the inevitable ramification for his unwise action.

  • The unexpected ramification made the buyers hesitant about signing the lease.

  • The politicians are hoping that the voters pay most attention to the positive ramification in the bill.

  • In February 1846, however, an insurrection broke out in Cracow, apparently a ramification of a widely spread conspiracy throughout Poland.

  • In its lowest parts this plain barely keeps above sea-level, but it rises gradually towards the interior, terminating in a ramification of valleys.

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Words Starting With

RRARAM

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NONION

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