outbranch noun 6verb 2forms 3 noun6 •A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.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. — 1987 •A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.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. — 1992 •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 •A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.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. — 1994 •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 •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 verb2 •To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.This wise little book has an illustration, after the pattern of a family tree, showing that love to man has its root in love to God, and that the virtues naturally outbranch in a tree thus planted. — 1898 •To form more branches than.In the quest for market share, institutions tried to outbranch each other, and major lenders tried to establish nationwide markets. — 1987 formsoutbranched · outbranching · outbranches
