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A division (as of a company)

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Usage examples (7)
  • His central theme is that these concepts make evolutionary biology an autonomous science, and not merely a subbranch of physics.
  • Jan 24 2008 Whoops, Eyak isn't quite an Athabaskan language but rather a coordinate subbranch of the Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit family, according to the Alaska Native...
  • Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as...
  • · (MNP) Unfolding a node now selects the entire subbranch.
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