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branched, past participle; branched, past tense; branching, present participle; branches, 3rd person singular present;
  1. (of a road or path) Divide into one or more subdivisions

  2. (of a tree or plant) Bear or send out branches
    • - the common sea lavender can be identified by its branched stem
  3. Diverge from the main route or part
    • - the road branched off at the town
    • - Ellington was constantly branching off with new musical styles
  4. Extend or expand one's activities or interests in a new direction
    • - the company is branching out into Europe
  1. branched: having branches
  2. resembling the branches of a tree
  3. (branched) bifurcate: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots"
  4. A branch is a part of a woody plant.
  5. In polymer chemistry, branching occurs by the replacement of a substituent, e.g., a hydrogen atom, on a monomer subunit, by another covalently bonded chain of that polymer; or, in the case of a graft copolymer, by a chain of another type. ...
  6. In linguistics, branching is the general tendency towards a given order of words within sentences and smaller grammatical units within sentences (such as subordinate propositions, prepositional phrases, etc.). ...
  7. Branching, in revision control and software configuration management, is the duplication of an object under revision control (such as a source code file, or a directory tree) so that modifications can happen in parallel along both branches.
  8. (brancher) A young owl, or other raptor just too young to fly. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings
  9. (Brancher) A young raptor capable of testing its wings by hopping from branch to branch in its nesting tree, but has not yet successfully flown and it is still fed by its parents.
  10. (Brancher) describes a miner cutting a new seam at the coal face.
  11. (Brancher) n. A juvenile raptor that has its flight feathers, but has not yet learned how to fly. So named for the habit of exploring branches near a nest.
  12. The process of interrupting a sequence of instructions in a computer program in order to go to a different point. For example, in a CALL exercise the program might branch to one point if the learner is right but to another if the learner is wrong. ...
  13. A proxy server can send each SIP request to multiple destinations (either using forking or sending the request sequentially). Each downstream SIP request is sent on its own branch (which is represented by its own UAC in the proxy server). See also: tag, UAC
  14. Branching refers to forking a set of files under version control such that, from that time forward, two copies of those files may develop independent of each other.
  15. A non-linear navigation path that is dependent on the learner's response to questions. Originally widely used for online survey questionnaires and has been incorporated into some eLearning applications. ...
  16. An instructional technique, usually in the form of programmed text, in which the learner's next step of instruction is determined by her response to a previous step.  Two or more directions in a program path can go from a decision point.
  17. The separation of the two strands of DNA. It occurs, for example, during the processes of transcription and replication, but can also occur locally as a result of various chromosome dynamics.
  18. The existence of two or more modes or branches by which a radionuclide an undergo radioactive decay, e.g., copper-64 can undergo β^ - , β^ + and electron-capture decay
  19. A programming technique which allows users of interactive video, multimedia courseware, or online training to choose from several courses of action in moving from one sequence to another.
  20. is where there are a number of possibilities based upon context and situation. Often games have different paths for play where there may be a number of different ways to start the game and move through the game– whether it be through the role of dice, scenarios, and spinners. ...
  21. Young owlets before they are ready to leave their parents care will climb around on tree trunks and branches before they can fly.
  22. the process of calling another program or window. CBT entries support two types of branching: conditional and unconditional. See also conditional branching, unconditional branching.
  23. sparks that split up into smaller sparks, which looks similar to a branch.
  24. A decision point in a program where the precessing logic much choose among tow or more paths.
  25. Actions always exit with a branch condition which should indicate the overall outcome of the action. An action can return any string value; by convention, must actions built by Cisco Systems return success and failure. ...