Computing

• Branch (computer science)
  Branch (computer science)
  A branch is sequence of code in a computer program which is conditionally executed depending on whether the flow of control is altered or not . The term can be used when referring to programs in high level languages as well as program written in machine code or assembly language...
  
  , a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition.
  • Branch predictor
    Branch predictor
    In computer architecture, a branch predictor is a digital circuit that tries to guess which way a branch will go before this is known for sure. The purpose of the branch predictor is to improve the flow in the instruction pipeline...
    
    , 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
    Branch table
    In computer programming, a branch table is a term used to describe an efficient method of transferring program control to another part of a program using a table of branch instructions. It is a form of multiway branch...
    
    , a term used to describe an efficient method of transferring program control (branching) to another part of a program using a table of branch instructions.
  • Indirect branch
    Indirect branch
    An indirect branch is a type of program control instruction present in some machine language instruction sets. Rather than specifying the address of the next instruction to execute, as in a direct branch, the argument specifies where the address is located...
    
    , a type of program control instruction.
• Branching (software)
  Branching (software)
  Branching, in revision control and software configuration management, is the duplication of an object under revision control so that modifications can happen in parallel along both branches....
  
  , a way of duplicating an object under revision control.

United States

• Branch, Arkansas
  Branch, Arkansas
  Branch is a city in Franklin County, Arkansas, United States. It is part of the Fort Smith, Arkansas-Oklahoma Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 357 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  
• Branch, Louisiana
  Branch, Louisiana
  Branch, Louisiana is an unincorporated community in Acadia Parish located on LA-35 near the LA-35 intersection, approximately 5 miles south of the town of Church Point and 8 miles north of the City of Rayne....
  
  
• Branch, Michigan
• Branch, Missouri
  Branch, Missouri
  Branch is an unincorporated community in southwestern Camden County, Missouri. It is located on Route 73 about midway between U.S. Route 54 and Tunas, Missouri. It formerly had a post office , but mail is now served from Macks Creek....
  
  
• Branch, Wisconsin
  Branch, Wisconsin
  Branch is an unincorporated community located, in the town of Manitowoc Rapids, in Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States. Branch is located on U.S. Route 10 east of Whitelaw....
  
  
• Branch County, Michigan
  Branch County, Michigan
  -Demographics:As of the 2000 census, there were 45,787 people, 16,349 households, and 11,575 families residing in the county. The population density was 90 people per square mile . There were 19,822 housing units at an average density of 39 per square mile...
  
  
• Branch Township (disambiguation)

Mathematics

• Branch point
  Branch point
  In the mathematical field of complex analysis, a branch point of a multi-valued function is a point such that the function is discontinuous when going around an arbitrarily small circuit around this point...
  
  , a point at which a multiple-valued function changes values
• Principal branch
  Principal branch
  In mathematics, a principal branch is a function which selects one branch, or "slice", of a multi-valued function. Most often, this applies to functions defined on the complex plane: see branch cut....
  
  , a function which selects one branch of a multi-valued function
• Branching process
  Branching process
  In probability theory, a branching process is a Markov process that models a population in which each individual in generation n produces some random number of individuals in generation n + 1, according to a fixed probability distribution that does not vary from individual to...
  
  , a kind of stochastic process

Religion

• Branch, in Jesus and Messianic prophecy, a prophetic name attributed by Christians to Jesus
• Branch Davidian
  Branch Davidian
  The Branch Davidians are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists , a reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church around 1930...
  
  , 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

Other

• Branch (surname)
  Branch (surname)
  Branch is a surname.People named Branch:* Arthur Branch, a fictional character on the TV crime drama Law & Order* Christopher Branch , early American colonist* Cliff Branch , retired American football player...
  
  , a family name
• Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
• Branch (banking)
  Branch (banking)
  A branch, banking center or financial center is a retail location where a bank, credit union, or other financial institution offers a wide array of face-to-face and automated services to its customers....
  
  , a retail location
• Branch (company), an establishment of a company in a country other than its home country
• Branch (bridle)
  Branch (bridle)
  The bit shank is the side piece or cheekpiece of a curb bit, part of the bridle, used when riding on horses. The bit shank allows leverage to be added to the pressure of the rider's hands on the bit. Shanks are usually made of metal, may be straight or curved, and may be decorated in some disciplines...
  
  , a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
• Branch line
  Branch line
  A branch line is a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line...
  
  , a relatively minor railway line
• Branching (chemistry)
  Branching (chemistry)
  In polymer chemistry, branching occurs by the replacement of a substituent, e.g., a hydrogen atom, on a monomer subunit, by another covalently bonded chain of that polymer; or, in the case of a graft copolymer, by a chain of another type...
  
  , a concept in polymer chemistry
• Branching (linguistics)
  Branching (linguistics)
  In linguistics, branching is the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences...
  
  , the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences
• USS Branch
  USS Branch
  USS Branch may refer to:, a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1920; transferred to Royal Navy as HMS Beverley; sunk by German submarine U-188, 1943., was renamed S. P. Lee prior to launching....
  
  , a ship of the United States Navy
• A branch of a Phylogenetic tree
  Phylogenetic tree
  A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical and/or genetic characteristics...
  
   in biology
• A sometime-used taxonomic rank
  Taxonomic rank
  In biological classification, rank is the level in a taxonomic hierarchy. Examples of taxonomic ranks are species, genus, family, and class. Each rank subsumes under it a number of less general categories...
  
  
• The major subgroups of Indo-European languages
  Indo-European languages
  The Indo-European languages are a family of several hundred related languages and dialects, including most major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and South Asia and also historically predominant in Anatolia...
  
   (Anatolian, Greek, Germanic, etc.)
• A local union
  Local union
  A local union, often shortened to local, in North America, or a union branch in the United Kingdom and other countries is a locally-based trade union organization which forms part of a larger, usually national, union.Local branches are organized to represent the union's members from a particular...
  
   in the trade union movement
• A subdivision of some government agencies
• Military branch
  Military branch
  Military branch is according to common standard the subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state...
  
  , a component of armed forces such as army, navy, marine corps, or air force
• In the United Sates Army, branches refers to particular specializations such as infantry, armor, artillery, etc.

See also

• Branch River (disambiguation)
• East Branch (disambiguation)
• Fort Branch
  Fort Branch
  Fort Branch was a fort built by the Confederate Army especially to defend against attacks from the Union Army along the Roanoke River in North Carolina....
  
  
• Long Branch (disambiguation)
• North Branch (disambiguation)
• South Branch (disambiguation)
• West Branch (disambiguation)
• Cadet branch
  Cadet branch
  Cadet branch is a term in genealogy to describe the lineage of the descendants of the younger sons of a monarch or patriarch. In the ruling dynasties and noble families of much of Europe and Asia, the family's major assets – titles, realms, fiefs, property and income – have...
  
  
• Executive branch
• Olive branch
  Olive branch
  The olive branch in Western culture, derived from the customs of Ancient Greece, symbolizes peace or victory and was worn by brides.-Ancient Greece and Rome:...
  
  
• Earthly Branches
  Earthly Branches
  The Earthly Branches provide one Chinese system for reckoning time.This system was built from observations of the orbit of Jupiter. Chinese astronomers divided the celestial circle into 12 sections to follow the orbit of Suìxīng . Astronomers rounded the orbit of Suixing to 12 years...