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Branch (disambiguation)

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Branch is used in a number of figurative senses, many of which express the idea of a divergence:

  1. A bark-covered structure of a woody plant; see branch
  2. In a computer program, a conditional jump or departure from the implicit or declared order in which instructions are being executed; also used as a verb meaning to perform such a jump (see branch (computer science))
  3. In software engineering, a separate line of development, which allows development on a project to diverge in two directions, such as a stable and a development version; see fork (software)
  4. A particular store or office location of a business with more than one such location, especially of a franchising business
  5. In government, a large division of the government with a certain function and given certain powers, such as the legislative branch, executive branch, or judicial branch
  6. In graph theory, a direct path joining two nodes of a network or graph
  7. In a power distribution system, a circuit from a distribution device (power panel) of a lower power handling capability than that of the input circuits to the device
  8. Many places have Branch in their names:
    1. Branch, Arkansas
    2. Branch County, Michigan
    3. Branch Township, Michigan
    4. Branch Township, Pennsylvania
    5. various places named North Branch
    6. various places named South Branch
    7. various places named West Branch
    8. Drakes Branch, Virginia
    9. Fall Branch, Tennessee
    10. Farmers Branch, Texas
    11. Flowery Branch, Georgia
    12. Fort Branch, Indiana
    13. Hamilton Branch, California
    14. various places named Long Branch
    15. Plum Branch, South Carolina
    16. Village of the Branch, New York
    17. Wells Branch, Texas

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