Word: outbranch Part of Speech: noun 1. A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot. Example: 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,— Example: 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, […] 2. A branch of a path, stream, vessel, duct, etc. that carries whatever travels along the patch, etc away from the main path etc. Example: 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. Example: 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). 3. 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. Example: For each stem, we identify gates fanning out from the stem and not contained in the list fanins (i.e., outbranches). Example: the outbranch is communicated to the peers who wait on the corresponding inbranch. 4. A branch of a business that has been spun off from the parent company. Example: 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. Example: 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. 5. An offshoot or outgrowth; something that develops from something else. Example: 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. Example: The most popular alternative major, though, was sports medicine, an outbranch of the Physical Education and Kinesiology departments. 6. Something that results from a law, ruling, or record, but which is separate from that law, ruling, etc. Example: The same contention was pressed in an earlier outbranch of the case in the supreme court. Example: 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.