Branching vs. Looping — What's the Difference?

A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.

A length of line, thread, ribbon, or other thin material that is curved or doubled over making an opening.

A lateral division or subdivision of certain other plant parts, such as a root or flower cluster.

The opening formed by such a doubled line.

A secondary outgrowth or subdivision of a main axis, such as the tine of a deer's antlers.

Something having a shape, order, or path of motion that is circular or curved over on itself.

(Anatomy) An offshoot or a division of the main portion of a structure, especially that of a nerve, blood vessel, or lymphatic vessel; a ramus.

(Electricity) A closed circuit.

An area of specialized skill or knowledge, especially academic or vocational, that is related to but separate from other areas

(Computers) A sequence of instructions that repeats either a specified number of times or until a particular condition is met.

A division of a business or other organization.

A loop-shaped intrauterine device.

A division of a family, categorized by descent from a particular ancestor.

A flight maneuver in which an aircraft flies a circular path in a vertical plane with the lateral axis of the aircraft remaining horizontal.

(Linguistics) A subdivision of a family of languages, such as the Germanic branch of Indo-European.

A segment of film or magnetic tape whose ends are joined, making a strip that can be continuously replayed.

A tributary of a river.

(Sports) See league1.

Chiefly Southern US See creek. See Note at run.

To form into a loop.

A divergent section of a river, especially near the mouth.

To fasten, join, or encircle with loops or a loop.

(Mathematics) A part of a curve that is separated, as by discontinuities or extreme points.

To fly (an aircraft) in a loop.

A sequence of program instructions to which the normal sequence of instructions relinquishes control, depending on the value of certain variables.

To move in a loop or an arc.

The instructions executed as the result of such a passing of control.

(Electricity) To join (conductors) so as to complete a circuit.

(Chemistry) A bifurcation in a linear chain of atoms, especially in an organic molecule where isomeric hydrocarbon groups can vary in the location and number of these bifurcations of the carbon chain.

To add or substitute (words) in a film by altering the soundtrack.

To put forth a branch or branches; spread by dividing.

To form a loop.

To come forth as a branch or subdivision; develop or diverge from

To move in a loop

(Computers) To relinquish control to another set of instructions or another routine as a result of the presence of a branch.

To make a loop in an aircraft.

To separate (something) into branches.

Something that loops; a looped pattern or action.

To embroider (something) with a design of foliage or flowers.

The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

Present participle of branch

The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination.

A process of forming a branch.

Of Loop.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

(computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained;

The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.

The act of branching out or dividing into branches

Having branches

Resembling the branches of a tree