branch cut

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a method for selecting a single-valued function on a subset of the domain of a multiple-valued function of a complex variable.

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Example Sentences

Although she doesn’t prune citrus plants, she’ll trim others, because “it’s good for the plant, and if you’re taking it into your home, you’re going to be looking at it for a while. If you don’t like that wonky branch, cut it off.”

From Seattle Times

Although she doesn’t prune citrus plants, she’ll trim others, because “it’s good for the plant, and, if you’re taking it into your home, you’re going to be looking at it for a while. If you don’t like that wonky branch, cut it off.”

From Washington Post

He was the vine, which is always pruned as nothing else that bears fruits; every branch cut away, only the bare stock left; through the winter a dead thing to look at, an old gnarled stump seeming incapable of ever putting forth leaves again.

From Literature

Workers tied on to one big branch, cut it, and lowered it to the ground, where it was limbed and the smaller branches fed into the chipper.

From Washington Times

Paint Branch cut the deficit to two points on several occasions but came up empty on potential game-tying possessions, including Brown’s drawn charge that kept the Damascus lead at 44-42.

From Washington Post