Branching

a.	1.	Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. - Milton.
n.	1.	The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch. The sciences, with their numerous branchings. - L. Watts.

Noun	1.	branching - the act of branching out or dividing into branches Synonyms: ramification, fork, forking
Adj.	1.	branching - having branches Synonyms: ramate, ramose, ramous, branched
	2.	branching - resembling the branches of a tree

V-shaped, Y-shaped, arboreal, arborescence, arborescent, arboriform, arborization, bifidity, biforked, biforking, bifurcate, bifurcated, bifurcation, bipartition, bisected, bisection, bowery, branched, branching off, branchlike, branchy, by two, cleft, cloven, crotched, cutting in two, dendriform, dendritic, dichotomous, dichotomy, dimidiate, dimidiation, divarication, divided, division, foliaged, foliate, foliated, foliose, forked, forking, forklike, furcate, furcation, halved, halving, in half, leafy, leaved, leavy, pronged, ramate, ramification, ramified, ramose, ramous, riven, split, subdivision, tree-shaped, treelike, treelikeness, tridentlike, trifurcate, trifurcated, trifurcation, twiggy