outbranch

English

Noun

outbranch (plural outbranches)

1. A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot.
   • 1855, Sharpe's London Magazine of Entertainment and Instruction:

     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,—

   • 1955, John Keir Cross, The dancing tree, page 185:

     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, […]

   • 1987, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Be-Bop, Re-Bop, page 39:

     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.

2. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc.
   • 1929, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, page 74:

     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.

   • 1992, William C. Fuller, Strategy and Power in Russia, 1600-1914, page 62:

     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).

   • 1992, Rudolf Clarenburg, Physiological Chemistry of Domestic Animals, page 107:

     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.

   • 2011, Christine A. Gleason, Sherin Devaskar, Avery's Diseases of the Newborn, page 1165:

     The metanephros develops from an outbranch of the wolffian duct called the ureteric bud that extends into a mass of undifferentiated metanephric mesenchyme.

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.
   • 1996, 1996 International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, page 165:

     For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches).

   • 2010, David Clarke, Gul Agha, Coordination Models and Languages, page 157:

     the outbranch is communicated to the peers who wait on the corresponding inbranch.

   • 2014, Leping Yang, Yanwei Zhu, Xianhai Ren, On-Orbit Operations Optimization: Modeling and Algorithms, page 35:

     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.

4. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company.
   • 1975, United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Long-Term Care, Trends in Long-term Care:

     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.

   • 1994, Wolfgang Jamann, Chinese Traders in Singapore, page 207:

     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.

   • 1995, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands, American Heritage Areas Partnership Program:

     Lewis and Clark explored this area in 1805 and 1806; Fort Vancouver was then established there as an outbranch of the Hudson Bay Co.

5. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else.
   • 1937, Courtney Ryley Cooper, Here's to Crime, page 329:

     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.

   • 2001, Corks and Curls - Volume 113, page 443:

     The most popular alternative major, though, was sports medicine, an outbranch of the Physical Education and Kinesiology departments.

6. (law) Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc.
   • 1897, Atlantic Reporter - Volumes 37-38, page 671:

     The same contention was pressed in an earlier outbranch of the case in the supreme court.

   • 1915, Peyton Boyle v, The Federal Reporter - Volume 223, page 281:

     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.

   • 1932, California Jurisprudence:

     This portion of this article is therefore an outbranch of the general law of agency, and should be so understood.

   • 1991, New Jersey statutes annotated, page 25:

     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.

Verb

outbranch (third-person singular simple present outbranches, present participle outbranching, simple past and past participle outbranched)

1. To form an outbranch; to branch out or spin off.
   • 1898, Woman's Missionary Friend - Volume 30, page 417:

     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.

   • 1915, The Sphere: An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home:

     From Udine two lines outbranch—one to Cormons south-easterly and the other north-easterly to Cividale, where it touches the fringe of the mountains, and both lines end close to the frontier.

   • 1916, Harry Amoss, Elementary Science in the Secondary Schools of Ontario, page 60:

     they will lose the benefit of a science course, which being undifferentiated (Chapter IV), forms the natural source of study from which the special sciences outbranch and through which they are correlated.

   • 1939, Leonidio Ribeiro, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     Gradually, the whole organization will outbranch the service from one place to another, in accordance with a prefixed schedule.

2. To form more branches than.
   • 1987, Outlook of the Federal Home Loan Bank System:

     In the quest for market share, institutions tried to outbranch each other, and major lenders tried to establish nationwide markets.

Anagrams

• branch out