outbranch

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
  2. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
  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.
  4. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
  5. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
  6. Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
verb
  1. To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
  2. To form more branches than.

Word forms

outbranch outbranches outbranching outbranched
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