[FRIAM] looking for a word

[Carl Tollander]

If you are in search of a river analogy word, you might look at "Rivers:
Form and Process in Alluvial Channels" by Keith Richards.  Chock full of
terminology and field methods.


On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:47 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I need a word (or short phrase) to refer to the portion of a network where
> the edges converge or diverge (more than other parts of the network.
> Examples might be a river delta or the branching (debranching?) of blood
> vessels or lungs.  "Plexus" or "knot" don't work because they could
> ambiguously refer to something like a tapestry or ... well, a knot, where
> each thread remains separate, but winds around other threads.  Something
> close to "canalization" seems appropriate. But I don't want to imply the
> generation (or dissolution) of the thing.  E.g. [arter|ang]iogenesis are
> not the type of words I'm looking for.
>
> There's got to be a good word for such, perhaps from graph theory or
> "network theory".  Any help will be rewarded by an IOU for a pint of beer.
> 8^)
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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