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

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* USS ''Branch'', various US Navy ships * Branch, a sometimes-used

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