Outbranch

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
2. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
3. (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.
4. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
5. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
6. (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
7. To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
8. To form more branches than.

Example Sentences

It may have been under one of those old Penshurst oaks, measuring a hundred and fifty feet from outbranch to outbranch (I know them well), that in the fnlness of a father's grief for his 'early ripe,' he wrote,—

Once, on the wood's further edge, he heard a splintering crack and leapt backwards as a torn limb hurtled towards him through the darkness. An outbranch from it caught his knee, and it even seemed that in the sudden swift pain there was a strange joy, […]

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.

In the experience which I have had in these cases —I suppose such as all of you have had—where the injury to the inner ear results in deafness, we make the award which the particular schedule schedule which we have calls for; but where the injury goes to the outbranch of the nerve and has nothing to do with hearing but has to do with being able to maintain equilibrium, we have a great deal of trouble.

In 1703 Peter ordered the construction of the Vyshnii Volochek Canal, a 2-mile passage to connect the Tversta river (an outbranch of the Volga) and the Msta (on which a transit to the Neva could be made via Lake Ilmen, the Volkhov, and Lake Ladoga).

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.

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

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

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• outbranches
• outbranching
• outbranched

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