outbranches

Noun

outbranch (plural outbranches)

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,—1855, Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction
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...1929, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 74
3. (data structures) 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).1996, 1996 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, page 165
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...1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, Trends in Long-term Care
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.1937, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Here's to Crime, page 329
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.1897, Atlantic Reporter - Volumes 37-38, page 671

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