Branch (disambiguation)

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A branch 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, an unincorporated community
• Branch, Branch County, Michigan, a former village and first seat of the county
• Branch County, Michigan
• 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
• 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 retail location
• Branch, a local union, in the trade union movement
• Military branch, a component of the armed forces, such as the army, navy, or air force

Mathematics

• Branches of mathematics, 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, of a multi-valued function, a point where all neighborhoods are multi-valued
  • Branched covering, 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), 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 sub-discipline
• Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
• Branch (computer science), 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
• USS Branch, various US Navy ships
• Branch, a sometimes-used taxonomic rank

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Branch
• Branching (disambiguation)
• Branch line, a relatively minor railway line
• Branč
• Branche, a surname
• East Branch (disambiguation)
• North Branch (disambiguation)
• South Branch (disambiguation)
• West Branch (disambiguation)
• Long Branch (disambiguation)