What is "branchings"

Usage examples of "branchings".

But this large-scale form emerges because of lots of little local cellular effects all over the developing body, and these local effects consist primarily of two-way branchings, in the form of two-way cell splittings.

Another obvious thing for a gene to do is to influence the depth of the recursion, the number of successive branchings.

In that tree, the number of successive branchings, determined by 'Gene 9', is eight, and the number of twig tips is 2 to the power 8, or 256.

This transition can be accomplished in 29 branchings, which we may naively think of as a stately walk of 29 steps across genetic space.

Yet the eight globins, descendants as they are of these remote branchings in distant ancestors, are still all present inside every one of us.

There are 15 possible histories, if we make the assumption that all branchings are two-way branchings.

These variations are based on alternate historical branchings at some time in the past.

The farther in the past these historical branchings take place, the more bizarre the alternate world appears to the travelers from the template world.

Rather it was a bludgeon, used to trim and prune the mathematical branchings and force the humanics equations back in line.

The book contained a diagram by Ortega and Nilssen showing the development of psychozoics in the Universe, their main road and branchings.

The measurement of temperature gradients revealed thermal spots on the surfaces of Norstralia and Heparia, interconnected by branchings deep in the ground, as if they were cave cities.

That frame or boundary—also called the "growth barrier"—accounted for the subsequent branchings from the monolithic trunk that was the main road, because different civilizations continued their existence in different ways.

Looking to the south through the vapors driven apart by the whirlwind, he saw a black structure like a flattened octopus or squid with many branchings of shiny strips.

Hardly had Bruneseau passed the first branchings of the subterranean network, when eight out of the twenty labourers refused to go further.

Ramifications in every direction, crossings of trenches, branchings, goose-tracks, stars as if in mines, cœcums, cul-de-sacs, arches covered with saltpetre, infectious cesspools, a herpetic ooze upon the walls, drops falling from the ceiling, darkness.