Branch (disambiguation) explained

A branch is a part of a woody plant.

Branch or branches may also refer to:

Places

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"

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

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

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 (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