(telecommunications) Of cable television and similar networks: consisting of a main central cable with a separate cable branching off it to each subscriber.

A census-designated place in Plumas County, California, United States.

(Christianity, UK, obsolete) Synonym of Palm Sunday

(anatomy) Either of the two offshoots of the bundle of His in the heart's ventricles which transmit cardiac action potentials from the bundle of His to the Purkinje fibers.

(mathematics) An unrooted binary tree that represents the hierarchical clustering of the edges of a undirected graph

(US) Ellipsis of bourbon and branch water.; bourbon whiskey mixed with plain water.

In radioactivity, the portion of all decays that take a given pathway. For example, californium-252 decays by alpha decay ~97% of the time, and by spontaneous fission ~3% of the time; so the branching ratio is about 0.97 in favor of alpha decay, and about 0.03 in favor spontaneous fission.

plural of branching ratio

simple past tense and past participle of monkey-branch

present participle of monkey-branch