1. n. The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
2. n. Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway
3. n. (in particular) A creek or stream which flows into a larger river. (In the US, branch is a Southern US term; compare Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia run, and New York and New England brook.)
4. n. (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
the branches of a hyperbola
5. n. A location of an organization with several locations.
Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
6. n. A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line.
the English branch of a family
7. n. (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see Wikipedia article on ward in LDS church.
8. n. An area in business or of knowledge, research.
9. n. (nautical) A certificate given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
10. n. (computer architecture) A sequence of code that is conditionally executed.
11. n. (computing) A group of related files in a source control system, including for example source code, build scripts, and media such as images.
12. n. (rail transport) A branch line.
13. v. (intransitive) To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
14. v. (intransitive) To produce branches.
15. v. To (cause to) divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
16. v. (intransitive, computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.
1. n. (authorship) One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided.
Detective novel writers try to keep up the suspense until the last chapter.
2. n. A section of a social or religious body.
3. n. An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
4. n. An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually pre
5. n. A community of canons or canonesses.
6. n. A bishop's council.
7. n. An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
8. n. A meeting of certain organized societies or orders.
9. n. A chapter house.
10. n. A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
11. n. A decretal epistle.
12. n. (obsolete) A location or compartment.
13. v. To divide into chapters.
14. v. To put into a chapter.
15. v. (military, with "out") To use administrative procedure to remove someone.