Definitions for ramification

ramification ram·i·fi·ca·tion

Spelling: [ram-uh-fi-key-shuh n]
IPA: /ˌræm ə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Ramification is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 800 anagrams from letters in ramification (aacfiiimnort).

Definitions for ramification

noun

  1. the act or process of ramifying.
  2. a branch:
  3. a related or derived subject, problem, etc.; outgrowth; consequence; implication:
  4. Botany. a structure formed of branches. a configuration of branching parts.

Origin of ramification

1670-80; Middle French Medieval Latin rāmificāt(us) (past participle of rāmificāre to ramify) + Middle French -ion -ion

Examples for ramification

We determined to keep up the etiquette of refined life in its every ramification.

There are sometimes other complications in the ramification of the tube, but these need not detain us.

It is remarkable that we sometimes find an idea dart suddenly into the mind without cause or ramification.

It led into a ramification of small passages and tunnels underground.

They are only an extension and ramification, one of another, an endless continuation like the epics of the East.

But in other species the ramification of the apophyses assumes more the form of bifurcation or of irregular branching.

It is not growing strongly, and is as simple as possible in ramification.

There is some advantage in this elaborate method of dissecting out every distinct fibre and ramification of an argument.

Every ramification has its feeder, and sucks up food for the tree with avidity.

We decidedly agree with him; we even think the idea shows signs of ramification.

Word Value for ramification
Scrable

19

Words with friends

22

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