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 Branch·ing, a. Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
    Shaded with branching palm.   --Milton.
 Branch, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Branched p. pr. & vb. n. Branching.]
 1. To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
 2. To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
 To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.
 To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc.
    To branch out into a long disputation.   --Spectator.
 Branch·ing, n. The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
    The sciences, with their numerous branchings.   --L. Watts.
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 branching
      adj 1: having branches [syn: branched, ramose, ramous, ramate]
      2: resembling the branches of a tree
      n : the act of branching out or dividing into branches [syn: ramification,
           fork, forking]