Ramification may refer to:
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Ramification (mathematics)
In geometry, ramification is 'branching out', in the way that the square root function, for complex numbers, can be seen to have two ''branches'' differing in sign. The term is also used from the opposite perspective (branches coming together) as ...
, a geometric term used for 'branching out', in the way that the square root function, for complex numbers, can be seen to have two branches differing in sign.
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Ramification (botany)
In botany, ramification is the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones, i.e., trunk into branches, branches into increasingly smaller branches, and so on. Gardeners stimulate the process of ramification through pruning, ther ...
, the divergence of the stem and limbs of a plant into smaller ones
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Ramification group, filtration of the Galois group of a local field extension
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Ramification theory of valuations, studies the set of extensions of a valuation v of a field K to an extension L of K
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Ramification problem, in philosophy and artificial intelligence, concerned with the indirect consequences of an action.
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Type theory, Ramified Theory of Types by mathematician
Bertrand Russell
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