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embranchment|ɛmˈbrɑːnʃmənt, -æ-|
[f. as prec. + -ment: cf. Fr. embranchement.]
A branching off or out, as of an arm of a river, a spur of a mountain-range: concr. a branch, ramification. Also fig.
1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 194 The lateral embranchments of the main valley of the Rhone. 1856Dove Logic Chr. Faith vi. §6. 405 Human life is divided into two embranchments. 1862G. P. Scrope Volcanoes 365 Several embranchments or strings of conoidal hills. 1876Quain Elem. Anat. (ed. 8) II. 157 The sympathetic set of nerves is a mere..embranchment of the cerebro-spinal system. 1877Clery Min. Tact. xiv. 201 The point of embranchment [of the road] was screened by a ridge. |