branch A branch, also called a ramus in botany, is a stem that grows off from another stem, or when structures like veins in leaves are divided into smaller veins. History and etymology In Old English, there are numerous words for branch, includ ...

is a part of a woody plant. Branch or branches may also refer to:

Places

Australia

* The Branch River, New South Wales

Canada

* Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador, a town

France

* Branches, Yonne, a commune

New Zealand

* Branch River (Taylor River tributary) * Branch River (Wairau River tributary)

United States

* Branch, Arkansas, a city * Branch, Louisiana, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Branch, Michigan, an unincorporated community * Branch, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Branch, Texas, an unincorporated community *

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 U.S. Route 10 or U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) is an east–west Unite ...

, an unincorporated community * Branch, Branch County, Michigan, a former village and first seat of the county *

Branch County, Michigan Branch County is a county in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 44,862. The county seat is Coldwater. One of the " cabinet counties", it was named for John Branch, U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Presiden ...

* Branch Township (disambiguation) * Fort Branch, North Carolina, a Confederate fort in the American Civil War * Branch River (New Hampshire) * The Branch, also known as Branch River, New Hampshire * Branch River (Rhode Island) * Branch River (Wisconsin)

People

* Branch (surname), a list of people with the name * Branch (given name), a list of people with the name * Branch McCracken (1908–1970), American college basketball player and coach nicknamed "Branch"

Arts and entertainment

* Branch Connally, a main character in the ''Longmire'' television series * Branch, a troll in the 2016 film ''

Trolls A troll is a being in Nordic folklore, including Norse mythology. In Old Norse sources, beings described as trolls dwell in isolated areas of rocks, mountains, or caves, live together in small family units, and are rarely helpful to human be ...

'' * Arthur Branch, a fictional district attorney in the ''Law & Order'' franchise * ''Branches'' (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin * '' The Branches'', a 2010 EP by The Dear Hunter

Companies and organizations

* Branch office, business organization that, unlike a subsidiary, does not constitute a separate legal entity even if physically separated from the organization's main office *

Branch (banking) A branch, banking center or financial center is a retail location where a bank, credit union, or other financial institution (including a broker, brokerage firm) offers a wide array of Real life, face-to-face and automated services to its cust ...

, a retail location * Branch, a

local union A local union (often shortened to local), in North America, or union branch (known as a lodge in some unions), in the United Kingdom and other countries, is a local branch (or chapter) of a usually national trade union. The terms used for sub-bran ...

, in the trade union movement *

Military branch Military branch (also service branch or armed service) is according to common standard a subdivision of the national armed forces of a sovereign nation or state. Types of branches Unified armed forces The Canadian Armed Forces is the unifie ...

, a component of the armed forces, such as the army, navy, or air force

Mathematics

Branches of mathematics Mathematics is a broad subject that is commonly divided in many areas or branches that may be defined by List of mathematical objects, their objects of study, by the used methods, or by both. For example, analytic number theory is a subarea of n ...

, subdisciplines within mathematics * Branch (algebraic geometry), a smooth arc of a real algebraic curve * Branch (graph theory), a path of degree-two vertices ending in vertices of degree unequal to two ** Branch-decomposition, a hierarchical clustering of the edges of a graph, and branchwidth, a graph parameter defined from these decompositions * Branch (mathematical analysis), a single value of a multi-valued complex function **

Branch point In the mathematical field of complex analysis, a branch point of a multivalued function is a point such that if the function is n-valued (has n values) at that point, all of its neighborhoods contain a point that has more than n values. Multi-valu ...

, of a multi-valued function, a point where all neighborhoods are multi-valued **

Branched covering In mathematics, a branched covering is a map that is almost a covering map, except on a small set. In topology In topology, a map is a ''branched covering'' if it is a covering map everywhere except for a nowhere dense set known as the branch set. ...

, a generalization of multi-valued functions in topology and algebraic geometry * Branch (set theory), a maximal totally ordered subset of a tree-ordered set

Religion

Branch (LDS Church) A ward is a local congregation in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with a smaller local congregation known as a branch. A ward is presided over by a bishop, the equivalent of a pastor in many other Christian denominat ...

, 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

Other uses

Branch (academia) An academic discipline or academic field is a subdivision of knowledge that is taught and researched at the college or university level. Disciplines are defined (in part) and recognized by the academic journals in which research is published, a ...

, an academic sub-discipline * Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank *

Branch (computer science) A branch, jump or transfer is an instruction in a computer program that can cause a computer to begin executing a different instruction sequence and thus deviate from its default behavior of executing instructions in order. ''Branch'' (or ''br ...

, a point in a computer program where program-flow may change depending on a condition * Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs * Branches, the major sub-families of a

language family A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term ''family'' is a metaphor borrowed from biology, with the tree model used in historical linguistics ...

* USS ''Branch'', various US Navy ships * Branch, a sometimes-used

taxonomic rank In biology, taxonomic rank (which some authors prefer to call nomenclatural rank because ranking is part of nomenclature rather than taxonomy proper, according to some definitions of these terms) is the relative or absolute level of a group of or ...