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nature's compromise between standing your ground and reaching for everything.
means A limb growing outward from a tree's trunk, or by extension any offshoot, subdivision, or diverging part of a larger whole — a river's arm, a company's outpost, a line on a family tree.
from From Old French 'branche,' meaning a limb or bough, which traces back to Late Latin 'branca' — a word for a paw or claw. So the tree's reaching arm and the animal's grasping foot share a root, both of them limbs that stretch out from a central body. The figurative senses (a branch of a family, a branch of knowledge, a branch office) bloomed naturally from the image of growth splitting off in new directions.
- growth angle
- trees calculate optimal branch angles for sunlight capture
- family trees
- genealogy borrowed the word for human lineage
- bank branch
- physical locations shrinking as apps swallow them
- olive branch
- peace symbol since ancient Greek victory rites
- code branch
- programmers split timelines, then merge realities back together