Ionic bonding. 1  A cation is a positively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge loses one or more electrons. 2  An anion is a negatively charged ion. It is formed when an atom of neutral charge gains one or more electrons.
Obfuscation is the practice of making something difficult to understand. Programming code is often obfuscated to protect intellectual property and prevent an attacker from reverse engineering a proprietary software program.
Hypernyms (ramification is a kind of...): subfigure (a figure that is a part of another figure) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of ramification): bifurcation (a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)) brachium ((biology) a branching or armlike part of an animal) crotch; fork (the region of the angle formed by the junction of two branches)