What does arborescent mean?

Definitions for arborescent
ˌɑr bəˈrɛs əntar·bores·cent

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shapedadjective

    resembling a tree in form and branching structure

    "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges"

Wiktionary

  1. arborescentadjective

    Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to a tree's; branching.

  2. arborescentadjective

    Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (opposed to the rhizome theory).

    Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.

  3. Etymology: First attested around 1675, from arborescens, present active participle of arboresco. The philosophical sense refers to the way genealogy trees are drawn.

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  1. arborescent

    Arborescent is an adjective used to describe something that resembles or has the qualities of a tree in properties, structure, or growth patterns. This term is commonly used in different fields such as botany, mathematics, and sociology. For example, it can refer to plants that grow in a tree-like manner, mathematical graphs that are tree-like in structure, or ideas that branch out in various directions much like a tree.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Arborescentadjective

    resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree

  2. Etymology: [L. arborescens, p. pr. of arborescere to become a tree, fr. arbor tree.]

Wikidata

  1. Arborescent

    Arborescent is a term used by the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari to characterize thinking marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism. The term, first used in A Thousand Plateaus where it was opposed to the rhizome, comes from the way genealogy trees are drawn: unidirectional progress, with no possible retroactivity and continuous binary cuts. Rhizomes, on the contrary, mark a horizontal and non-hierarchical conception, where anything may be linked to anything else, with no respect whatsoever for specific species: rhizomes are heterogeneous links between things that have nothing to do between themselves. Horizontal gene transfer is also an example of rhizomes, opposed to the arborescent evolutionism theory. Deleuze also criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.

Entomology

  1. Arborescent

    branching like the twigs of a tree.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of arborescent in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of arborescent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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