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Definition branch

Etymology

From Middle English branche, braunche, bronche, borrowed from Old French branche, brance, from Late Latin branca (“footprint”, later also “paw, claw”), of unknown origin, possibly from Gaulish *vranca. Indo-European cognates include Old Norse vró (“angle, corner”), Lithuanian rankà (“hand”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (r?ka, “hand”), Albanian rangë (“yardwork”).

Noun

branch (plural branches)

1. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
2. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
3. (chiefly Southern US) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
4. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
5. A location of an organization with several locations.
6. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
7. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
8. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
9. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
10. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
11. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
12. (rail transport) A branch line.

Verb

branch (third-person singular simple present branches, present participle branching, simple past and past participle branched)

1. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
2. (intransitive) To produce branches.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
4. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

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