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Meaning of outbranch | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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.

Examples

“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,—”
“Once, on the wood's further edge, he heard a splintering crack and leapt backwards as a torn limb hurtled towards him through the darkness. An outbranch from it caught his knee, and it even seemed that in the sudden swift pain there was a strange joy, […]”
“He stooped to squint again at Double who's partly hidden now by an outbranch of bushes beyond as he voids nature's course in a stream of the Rhine.”
“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 to do with hearing but has to do with being able to maintain equilibrium, we have a great deal of trouble.”
“In 1703 Peter ordered the construction of the Vyshnii Volochek Canal, a 2-mile passage to connect the Tversta river (an outbranch of the Volga) and the Msta (on which a transit to the Neva could be made via Lake Ilmen, the Volkhov, and Lake Ladoga).”
“Receptors of one kind each assemble in curvy outbranches of the endosomal compartment and pinch off allowing the receptors to return to the cell surface for another round of duty.”
“The metanephros develops from an outbranch of the wolffian duct called the ureteric bud that extends into a mass of undifferentiated metanephric mesenchyme.”
“For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches).”
“the outbranch is communicated to the peers who wait on the corresponding inbranch.”
“Determine the best outbranch. We add all generated waypoints to the tree and examine every waypoint to see whether its last two impulses satisfy the impulse constraint. If so, this outbranch represents a feasible solution.”
“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 important and better recognized function through the transfer of these regulations to the new category of skilled nursing facilities.”
“It was founded as one of several outbranches of the mother company to provide the five sons of Ng Chee's director with own companies after the latter retired.”
“Lewis and Clark explored this area in 1805 and 1806; Fort Vancouver was then established there as an outbranch of the Hudson Bay Co.”
“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.”
“The most popular alternative major, though, was sports medicine, an outbranch of the Physical Education and Kinesiology departments.”
“The same contention was pressed in an earlier outbranch of the case in the supreme court.”
“A suit on a bond given on appeal is not an original suit, but an outbranch of the suit in which the bond was given, and the jurisdiction of the original suit gives jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the suit on the bond.”
“This portion of this article is therefore an outbranch of the general law of agency, and should be so understood.”
“The pension to the widow is an outbranch of the retirement payment to the policeman in that it is premised upon the previous service and the contributory payments, while in service, of the policeman, although it is distinguishable in that supporting contributory payments must be made by the policeman until his death, so that the enforced contributions from the pension of a policeman who desires to preserve his pension privileges to his wife in the event that she outlives him are of a kind, in so far as legislative control thereover is concerned, with those mandatorily made from his salary payments during the years of his active service.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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