outbranch

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
    — 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,—
  2. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
    — 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.
  3. 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.
    — For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches).
  4. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
    — Members of the society service some 300,000 nursing beds across the country and represent the foremost practitioners of the specialty of consultant pharmacy, a professional outbranch which grew from the Medicare extended care facility conditions of participation and which has become a more important and better recognized function through the transfer of these regulations to the new category of skilled nursing facilities.
  5. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
    — There was the Red Gang, for instance, which originated some time in the fifteenth century, while the Green Gang was an outbranch of the Buddhist religion at about the same time.
  6. Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
    — The same contention was pressed in an earlier outbranch of the case in the supreme court.
动词 v.
  1. To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
    — This wise little book has an illustration, after the pattern of a family tree, showing that love to man has its root in love to God, and that the virtues naturally outbranch in a tree thus planted.
  2. To form more branches than.
    — In the quest for market share, institutions tried to outbranch each other, and major lenders tried to establish nationwide markets.

词形变化

outbranches plural outbranches present,singular,third-person outbranching participle,present outbranched participle,past outbranched past
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