Home › Words › E › embranchmentembranchmentembranchment · noun — A branching off.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyCompare French embranchement.nounA branching offe.g.“embranchment of a river/tree/mountain ridge/nerve”Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.rebranching 70% match — A secondary branching. vs embranchment →branching 67% match — A process of forming a branch. vs embranchment →subbranch 67% match — A branch that is itself an offshoot of a branch of something. vs embranchment →rebranch 66% match — To branch again. vs embranchment →outbranch 65% match — A branch of a tree, bush, or shrub that extends outward; offshoot. vs embranchment →multibranch 62% match — Of or pertaining to more than one branch (in various senses). vs embranchment →branchway 61% match — A path or route formed by the branches of trees. vs embranchment →trifurcation 61% match — A division into three branches. vs embranchment →