ramification

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In this specialized environment, another ramification is greatly slowed backup and recovery procedures, affecting the entire enterprise.

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  1. noun A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement: the ramifications of a court decision.
  2. noun The act or process of branching out or dividing into branches.
  3. noun A subordinate part extending from a main body; a branch.
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  • The ramification, however, is that nervous governments might mistake these flash events for nuclear bombs aimed in their direction and trigger a like response. —  Omni: August 1994
  • Of course there is no legal ramification, but the fact that they did it makes me suspect of their intentions … And it makes me suspect of their motives and actual books … —  InvestorGeeks
  • In this specialized environment, another ramification is greatly slowed backup and recovery procedures, affecting the entire enterprise. —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • The East has its own ramification-heavy match-up, with the 76ers attempting to catch back up to the Heat in the race for the No. 5 seed while the Bulls try desperately to avoid the Cavaliers.
  • The ramification is that the club sports program receives both more clout and funding. —  The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03
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  1. = French ramification = Spanish ramificacion = Portuguese ramificação = Italian ramificazione, from Middle Latin *ramificatio (n-), from ramificare, ramify: see ramify.
 

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/ræmɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
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