Re: [Gnumed-devel] English speakers: organisations and branches thereof ?

[Jim Busser]

The best english term (unless other english speakers disagree) may be

        site

which brings with it a helpful sense of physicality (as opposed to simply 
administrative).

As you pointed out, two physical sites may only be semi-distinct and may share 
the same address.

On 2010-09-10, at 6:22 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:17:21PM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> 
>>      branch
>>      office
>>      department
>>      division
>>      bureau
>>      fraction
>>      partition
>>      section
>>      shop
>>      ward
>> 
>> I would favour branch.
> 
> Oh, and each "branch" is intended to only ever have one
> address. If I go "Oh, I'd like to add an address to this
> branch" I am at the wrong level of granularity and should
> add another branch instead. However, I do not think calling
> this organisation_address is correct either, because there
> can very well be two "branches" with the same address :-)