Branch (disambiguation)

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A branch is a part of a woody plant.

Branch or branching may also refer to:

Places[]

Canada

• Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador

France

• Branches, Yonne

United States

• Branch, Arkansas
• Branch, Louisiana
• Branch, Michigan
• Branch, Missouri
• Branch, Texas
• Branch, Wisconsin
• Branch County, Michigan
• Branch Township (disambiguation)
• Fort Branch, Indiana
• Fort Branch, North Carolina

People[]

• Branch (surname), a family name
• Branch McCracken (1908–1970), college men's basketball coach
• Branch Rickey (1881–1965), Major League Baseball executive

Arts, entertainment, and media[]

• Branch Connally, a main character in the Longmire series
• Branches (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin
• Branch, a troll in the 2016 film Trolls

Companies and organizations[]

• Branch (banking), a retail location
• Branch, an establishment of a company in a foreign location other than its headquarters
  • Branch plant, factory
• Branch, a local union, in the trade union movement
• Military branch, a component of armed forces such as army, navy, or air force

Computing[]

• Branch (computer science), a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition
  • Branch predictor, the part of a processor that determines whether a conditional branch in the instruction flow of a program is likely to be taken or not
  • Branch table, an efficient method of transferring program control (branching) to another part of a program using a table of branch instructions
  • Indirect branch, a type of program control instruction
• Branching (revision control), a way of duplicating an object under revision control

Government and politics[]

• Country branch
• Government branch
  • Electoral branch
  • Executive branch
  • Judicial branch
  • Legislative branch

Mathematics[]

• Branch, in graph theory, a path is a sequence of edges connecting nodes in a graph or tree
• Branch, in set theory, a maximal chain in a tree
• Branch point, a point at which a multiple-valued function changes values
• Branching process, a kind of stochastic process
• Principal branch, a function which selects one branch of a multi-valued function

Religion[]

• Branch (LDS Church), the smaller of two types of local congregation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Branch, in Jesus and messianic prophecy, a prophetic name attributed by Christians to Jesus
• Branch Davidian, a Christian sect

Science[]

• Branch, a sometimes-used taxonomic rank
• Branching (polymer chemistry), when the polymer chain is non-linear
• Branched-chain amino acid, having a non-linear alkyl side-chain
• Branched alkane, having a non-linear bonding among the carbon atoms
• Phylogenetic tree, branching diagram/tree in biology

Other uses[]

• Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
• Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
• Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs
• Branch line, a relatively minor railway line
• Branches, the major sub-families of a language family
• Branching (linguistics), the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences
• Cadet branch, in genealogy
• Earthly Branches, in Chinese chronology
• Olive branch
• USS Branch, a ship of the United States Navy

See also[]

• All pages with titles beginning with Branch
• Branč
• Branch River (disambiguation)
• Branche, a surname
• East Branch (disambiguation)
• Justice Branch (disambiguation)
• Long Branch (disambiguation)
• North Branch (disambiguation)
• South Branch (disambiguation)
• West Branch (disambiguation)

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