Ramification vs Outgrowth - What's the difference?
ramification | outgrowth |
(botany, anatomy) A branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc.
* 1829 , Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany , p. 179:
* 1856 , Neil Arnott & Isaac Hayes, Elements of Physics , pp. 414-5:
An offshoot of a decision, fact etc.; a consequence or implication, especially one which complicates a situation.
* 1834 , Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy :
* 2009 , The Guardian , Chris Power,
(mathematics) An arrangement of branches.
As nouns the difference between ramification and outgrowth
is that ramification is a branching-out, the act or result of developing branches; specifically the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, or of similar developments in blood vessels, anatomical structures etc while outgrowth is anything that grows out of something else.ramification
English
(wikipedia ramification)Noun
(en noun)- The character of trees may be studied to advantage [...] in winter, when the forms of the ramification can be seen in the naked boughs [...].
- From the left chamber or ventricle'' of the strong muscular mass, the ''heart'', a large tube arises, called the ''aorta ; and by a continued division or ramification , opens a way for the bright scarlet blood to the very minutest part of the living frame [...].
- The treachery of some of the Jacobite agents (Rashleigh among the rest), and the arrest of others, had made George the First's Government acquainted with the extensive ramifications of a conspiracy long prepared, and which at last exploded prematurely [...].
Booksblog, 14 Jul 09:
- But most often and memorably his work falls into that territory best summed up as speculative fiction, with a particular emphasis on dystopian futures and the existential ramifications of space exploration.
