| 单词 | branch | 
| 释义 | branch [branch]  BOTANY A shoot or secondary stem on the trunk or a limb of a tree.  COMPUTER SCIENCE 1. Any one of a number of instruction sequences in a program to which computer control is passed, depending upon the status of one or more variables.  2. See <<jump>>  ELECTRICITY A portion of a network consisting of one or more two-terminal elements in series. Also known as arm.  ENGINEERING In a piping system, a pipe that originates in or discharges into another pipe. Also known as branch line.  HYDROLOGY A small stream that merges into another, generally bigger, stream.  MATHEMATICS 1. A complex function which is analytic in some domain and which takes on one of the values of a multiple-valued function in that domain.  2. A section of a curve that is separated from other sections of the curve by discontinuities, singular points, or other special points such as maxima and minima.  NUCLEAR PHYSICS A product resulting from one mode of decay of a radioactive nuclide that has two or more modes of decay.  ORGANIC CHEMISTRY See <<side chain>>  SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY An area of study representing an independent offshoot of a related basic discipline.  | 
	
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