Outbranch

Quick meaning: Outbranch is a noun meaning A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.

Meaning

A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.

More Meanings

1. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
2. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
3. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
4. (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
5. To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
6. To form more branches than.
7. (data structures) One of several edges in a directed graph that has an endpoint in a specified vertex and for which the direction of the edge goes from the specified vertex to another vertex.

Example Sentences

For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches).

He stooped to squint again at Double who's partly hidden now by an outbranch of bushes beyond as he voids nature's course in a stream of the Rhine.

The metanephros develops from an outbranch of the wolffian duct called the ureteric bud that extends into a mass of undifferentiated metanephric mesenchyme.

Receptors of one kind each assemble in curvy outbranches of the endosomal compartment and pinch off allowing the receptors to return to the cell surface for another round of duty.

Word Forms

• outbranches
• outbranching
• outbranched

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include outgrowth, subbranch, offshoot, embranchment, tree-branch, branch.

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