Branch (disambiguation)

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A branch is a part of a woody plant.

Branch or branching may also refer to:

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

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

Branch (banking), a retail location
An establishment of a company in a foreign country other than its home country
- Branch plant, factory
Military branch, a component of armed forces such as army, navy, or air force

Branch, in Jesus and messianic prophecy, a prophetic name attributed by Christians to Jesus
Branch Davidian, a Christian sect
Ward (LDS Church)#Branch, a small-sized congregation in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Branch (Latter Day Saint movement), any congregation in other churches in the Latter Day Saint movement

Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
Branch line, a relatively minor railway line
Branching (polymer chemistry), a concept in polymer chemistry
Branching (linguistics), the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences
USS Branch, a ship of the United States Navy
Phylogenetic tree, branching diagram/tree in biology
A sometime-used taxonomic rank
The major subgroups of Indo-European languages (Anatolian, Greek, Germanic, etc.)
Local union, in the trade union movement
Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs
Branches (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin