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Branch vs Shunt - What's the difference?

branch | shunt |

As a proper noun branch

is .

As a verb shunt is

(obsolete|uk|dialect) to turn away or aside.

As a noun shunt is

a switch on a railway.

branch

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(es) (wikipedia branch)
  • The woody part of a tree arising from the trunk and usually dividing.
  • Any of the parts of something that divides like the branch of a tree.
    • the branch of an antler, a chandelier, a river, or a railway
  • (geometry) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance.
    • the branches of a hyperbola
  • A location of an organization with several locations.
    • Our main branch is downtown, and we have branches in all major suburbs.
  • 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
  • * Carew
    • his father, a younger branch of the ancient stock
  • (Mormonism) A local congregation of the LDS Church that is not large enough to form a ward; see .
  • An area in business or of knowledge, research.
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    • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= citation , passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
  • (nautical) A certificate given by (Trinity House) to a pilot qualified to take navigational control of a ship in British waters.
  • (computer architecture) A sequence of .

    • Related terms

    * branch banking * branch line * branch office * main branch * branchlike

    Synonyms

    * (part of a tree) bough, tillow, twig, see also

    Verb

    (es)
  • To arise from the trunk or a larger branch of a tree.
  • To produce branches.
  • To divide into separate parts or subdivisions.
  • (computing) To jump to a different location in a program, especially as the result of a conditional statement.

    • Related terms

    * branch off * branch out 1000 English basic words ----

    shunt

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To turn away or aside.
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
    • (Ash)
  • To move a train from one track to another, or to move carriages etc from one train to another.
  • To divert electric current by providing an alternative path.
  • To divert the flow of a body fluid using surgery.
  • To move data in memory to a physical disk.
  • (informal, British) To have a minor collision, especially in a motor car.
  • To provide with a shunt.
    • to shunt a galvanometer

    Noun

    (wikipedia shunt) (en noun)
  • A switch on a railway
  • A connection used as an alternative path between parts of an electric circuit
  • A passage between body channels constructed surgically as a bypass
  • (informal, British) A minor collision
  • (firearms) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

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