arborescent
adj/ɑːbəˈɹɛsənt/UK/ɑːɹbəˈɹɛsənt/US
Etymology
From Latin arborēscēns, present active participle of arborēscō (“become a tree”). First attested around 1675. The philosophical sense refers to the way genealogy trees are drawn.
- derived from arborēscēns
Definitions
Like a tree
Like a tree; having a structure or appearance similar to that of a tree; branching.
- Hydatica. Stem arborescent, jointed, branched; leaves long, linear.
- Robinia, with its center of distribution in the southern Alleghany region, is represented by two arborescent and one frutescent species in the Atlantic and by one arborescent species in the Pacific region.
Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the…
Marked by insistence on totalizing principles, binarism and dualism (as opposed to the rhizome theory).
- Gilles Deleuze criticizes the Chomsky hierarchy of formal languages, which he considers a perfect example of arborescent dualistic theory.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA