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Word: branch (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A location of an organization with several locations.
  • An area in business or of knowledge, research
  • Mormonism A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but smaller than a ward.
  • nautical The certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters
  • Something that divides like the branch of a tree
  • The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing

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Verb:

  • intransitive|computing To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
  • intransitive To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
  • intransitive To produce branches.

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