branch

Definitions of branch in various dictionaries:

noun - a division of some larger or more complex organization

noun - a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant

noun - a part of a forked or branching shape

noun - a natural consequence of development

noun - a stream or river connected to a larger one

noun - any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

verb - grow and send out branches or branch-like structures

verb - divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.

A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.

A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer’s antlers.

An offshoot or a division of the main portion of a structure, especially that of a nerve, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel; a ramus.

An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas: the judicial branch of government; the branch of medicine called neurology.

A division of a business or other organization.

A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.

A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.

A tributary of a river.

See branch water (n.

A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.

A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.

Computer Science.

A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.

The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.

To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.

To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from: an unpaved road that branches from the main road; a theory that branches from an older system of ideas.

To enlarge the scope of one’s interests, business, or activities: branch out from physics into related scientific fields.

To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.

To separate (something) into or as if into branches.

The central meaning shared by these noun s is “something resembling or structurally analogous to a limb of a tree”: a branch of a railroad; an arm of the sea; the western fork of the river; an offshoot of a mountain range.

verb - to form branches (offshoots)

BRANCH - A branch (UK: or UK: , US: ) or tree branch (sometimes referred to in botany as a ramus) is a woody structural member connected to but not part of t...