Branch (disambiguation)

A branch is a part of a woody plant.

Branch or branching may also refer to:

Places

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

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

Country branch
Government branch
- Electoral branch
- Executive branch
- Judicial branch
- Legislative branch

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

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

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

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