brancher

From branch (verb) +‎ -er.

brancher (plural branchers)

1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
2. (programming) That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
   • 1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69:

     None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.

   • 1999, Mickey Kawick, Real-time Strategy Game Programming Using DirectX 6.0, page 37:

     This is pretty typical for a C-written brancher.

From branch (noun) +‎ -er. So called because of the bird still clinging to the branches while practising flying movements with the wings.

brancher (plural branchers)

1. (falconry) A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, ; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, , →OCLC, page 83:

     “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass? […]”

• root-and-brancher

• rebranch

From branche +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /bʁɑ̃.ʃe/

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brancher

1. to connect, plug in (appliance)
2. (computing) to branch
3. (Louisiana) to branch off, to turn (of a road)

   Synonym: fourcher

• “brancher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.