It was in the Agora of Athens that the great philosopher Socrates questioned the market-goers on their understanding of the meaning of life, attracting a crowd of Athenian youth who enjoyed seeing the more pretentious of their elders made fools of.
Branching definition, a division or subdivision of the stem or axis of a tree, shrub, or other plant. See more.
Different structural parameters can be used to characterize the topology of hyperbranched polymers. The degree of branching is defined as B D D L = +2 2 () where D is the number of fully branched units and L is the number of partially reacted units (Holter et al., 1997).