Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun branching

1 sense of branching

Sense 1
branching, ramification, fork, forking -- (the act of branching out or dividing into branches)
       => division -- (the act or process of dividing)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb branch

2 senses of branch

Sense 1
ramify, branch -- (grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large")
       => grow -- (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast")

Sense 2
branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate -- (divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks")
       => diverge -- (move or draw apart; "The two paths diverge here")
          Phrasal Verb-> branch out#1

Antonyms of adj branching

2 senses of branching

Sense 1
branched, branching, ramose, ramous, ramate -- (having branches)

INDIRECT (VIA branchy) -> branchless -- (having no branches)

Sense 2
branching -- (resembling the branches of a tree)

INDIRECT (VIA divergent) -> convergent -- (tending to come together from different directions)

Similarity of adj branching

2 senses of branching

Sense 1
branched, branching, ramose, ramous, ramate -- (having branches)
       => branchy (vs. branchless) -- (having many branches; "a branchy tree trunk")

Sense 2
branching -- (resembling the branches of a tree)
       => divergent (vs. convergent), diverging -- (tending to move apart in different directions)