1. Result of an action, outcome, upshot, end result.
2. Smaller limbs branching out from the main trunk.
ram - eh - fuh - KAY - shun
implication, corollary, result, consequence, outcome
As Teddy issued the pink slips, he was blissfully unaware of the sad ramifications.
In a Quote
"Pursuing his inquiries, Clennam found that the Gowan family were a very distant ramification of the Barnacles..." from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens.

