ramification
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- n the act of branching out or dividing into branches
- n a part of a forked or branching shape
- n a development that complicates a situation
the court's decision had many unforeseen ramifications - n an arrangement of branching parts
- Though the Education Minister is primarily interested in reforming school curriculum, the ramification of his ideas nevertheless carries through all education.
- The ramification of this experiment is not that "dozens of other boys may have been needlessly castrated.
- And it is ever more clear that one ramification of Rumsfeld's win-it-fast design is that the President will be spending more time than he had planned to in the run-up to his re .