A branch is a part of a woody plant.
Branch or branching may also refer to:
Places
- Canada
- France
- Branches, Yonne
- United States
- Branch, Arkansas
- Branch, Louisiana
- Branch, Michigan
- Branch, Missouri
- Branch, Texas
- Branch, Wisconsin
- Branch County, Michigan
- Branch Township (disambiguation)
- Fort Branch, Indiana
- Fort Branch, North Carolina
People
- Branch (surname), a family name
- Branch McCracken (1908–1970), college men's basketball coach
- Branch Rickey (1881–1965), Major League Baseball executive
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Branch Connally, a main character in the Longmire series
- Branches (novel), a 2000 novel-in-verse by American author Mitch Cullin
Companies and organizations
- Branch (banking), a retail location
- Branch, an establishment of a company in a foreign location other than its headquarters
- Branch plant, factory
- Branch, a local union, in the trade union movement
- Military branch, a component of armed forces such as army, navy, or air force
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
Government and politics
- Country branch
- Government branch
- Electoral branch
- Executive branch
- Judicial branch
- Legislative branch
Mathematics
- Branch, in graph theory, a path is a sequence of edges connecting nodes in a graph or tree
- Branch, in set theory, a maximal chain in a tree
- Branch point, a point at which a multiple-valued function changes values
- Branching process, a kind of stochastic process
- Principal branch, a function which selects one branch of a multi-valued function
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
- Branch Davidian, a Christian sect
Science
- Branch, a sometimes-used taxonomic rank
- Branching (polymer chemistry), a concept in polymer chemistry
- Phylogenetic tree, branching diagram/tree in biology
Other uses
- Branch (academia), an academic sub-discipline
- Branch (bridle), a crooked piece of iron in a bit shank
- Branch (hieroglyph), a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs
- Branch line, a relatively minor railway line
- Branches, the major sub-families of a language family
- Branching (linguistics), the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences
- Cadet branch, in genealogy
- Earthly Branches, in Chinese chronology
- Olive branch
- USS Branch, a ship of the United States Navy
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Branch
- Branč
- Branch River (disambiguation)
- Branche, a surname
- East Branch (disambiguation)
- Justice Branch (disambiguation)
- Long Branch (disambiguation)
- North Branch (disambiguation)
- South Branch (disambiguation)
- West Branch (disambiguation)