Plural of branching; multiple instances or points where something splits into separate paths or divisions.
From 'branch' (Old French origin) + '-ing' (gerund suffix) + '-s' (plural). The word captures the action or result of divisions occurring repeatedly.
In computer science, decision trees use branchings to make choices—the more branchings, the more complex the problem-solving becomes, like a river delta splitting into countless smaller channels.
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