arborescence

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A rectilinear Steiner arborescence (RSA) is a tree, whose nodes include a prescribed set of points, termed the vertices, in the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane, and whose tree edges from parent to child nodes must head either straight to the right or straight above.

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  1. The state of being arborescent.
  2. Something, as a mineral or a group of crystals, having the figure of a tree.

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  • A rectilinear Steiner arborescence (RSA) is a tree, whose nodes include a prescribed set of points, termed the vertices, in the first quadrant of the Cartesian plane, and whose tree edges from parent to child nodes must head either straight to the right or straight above. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • It is not a blotting out -- it is a polishing, it is an arborescence, it is an efflorescence, it is an irradiation. —  New Tabernacle Sermons
  • Thus passed the leafy time when arborescence seems to be the one thing aimed at out of doors. —  Tess of the d'Urbervilles
  • A timepiece of striated Connemara marble, stopped at the hour of 4.46 a.m. on the 21 March 1896, matrimonial gift of Matthew Dillon: a dwarf tree of glacial arborescence under a transparent bellshade, matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle: an embalmed owl, matrimonial gift of —  Ulysses
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