<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 11:47 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com" target="_blank">gepropella@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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.<br>
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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^)<br>
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