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

  • 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)