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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

branch, the certificate or diploma which used to be given by Trinity House to a pilot qualified to navigate a ship in British waters. A full branch from Trinity House qualified a pilot to navigate without any restrictions in British waters, which included the whole of the English Channel and all other waters around the British Isles even when they lay outside territorial waters. A limited branch gave him a qualification to act as a pilot only in waters specifically named in the branch. Nowadays, a branch is the certificate awarded to Younger Brethren of Trinity House on election.

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A Dictionary of Computing | 2004 | | Copyright

branch
1. A control structure in which one of two or more alternative sets of program statements is selected for execution. The selection is achieved during execution by means of a branch instruction; this instruction thus breaks the normal sequential program flow. (Branch instruction is usually regarded as synonymous with jump instruction.) See also jump, if then else statement, case statement, GOTO statement.

2. The set of instructions selected for execution as a result of a branch instruction.

3. To perform such a selection.

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JOHN DAINTITH. "branch." A Dictionary of Computing. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military | 2001 | Copyright

branch n.
1. a subdivision of any organization.

2. a geographically separate unit of an activity that performs all or part of the primary functions of the parent activity on a smaller scale. Unlike an annex, a branch is not merely an overflow addition.

3. an arm or service of the army.

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A Dictionary of the Bible | 1997 | | Copyright

branch A great crowd in Jerusalem for the Passover went out to meet Jesus carrying branches of palm trees (John 12: 13). According to Mark 11: 8 people accompanying Jesus carpeted the road with leafy branches (rushes?) which they had gathered in the fields.

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W. R. F. BROWNING. "branch." A Dictionary of the Bible. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture | 2000 | | Copyright

branch.
1. Gothic rib in a vault that continues from the top of a pier without interruption, there being no capital on the pier.

2. Any Gothic rib in a vault.

2. See tracery.

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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "branch." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

JAMES STEVENS CURL. "branch." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-branch.html

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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Copyright

branch The graphical representation of an evolutionary relationship in a phylogenetic (see PHYLOGENY) tree.

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AILSA ALLABY and MICHAEL ALLABY. "branch." A Dictionary of Earth Sciences. 1999. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | | Copyright

branch The graphical representation of an evolutionary relationship in a phylogenetic (see phylogeny) tree.

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MICHAEL ALLABY. "branch." A Dictionary of Ecology. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

branch XIII. — (O)F. branche :- late L. branca, of unkn. orig.

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T. F. HOAD. "branch." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

T. F. HOAD. "branch." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-branch.html

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

branch A lateral stem that arises from another of the same form.

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"branch." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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	Branch Council--a significant personal commitment. Magazine article from: Australian Nursing Journal; 4/1/2011
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