branching
Speech parts
1. branching - Noun
2. branching - Adjective
3. branching - Verb
5. branching - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
of Branch
Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
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A coyote den can have several entrances and passages branching out from the main chamber.
A 'flat hierarchy' is a branching hierarchy in which the maximum degree approaches infinity, i.e., that has a wide span. citation (registration required) Most often, systems intuitively regarded as hierarchical have at most a moderate span.
After all, lichen is continuously branching out and adapting: She intends to do the same.
Additional USB hubs may be included in the tiers, allowing branching into a tree structure with up to five tier levels.
Also observed, for charged pions only, is the very rare "pion beta decay " (with branching fraction of about 10 −8 ) into a neutral pion, an electron and an electron antineutrino (or for positive pions, a neutral pion, a positron, and electron neutrino).
A method for deducing branching sequences in phylogeny.