DIVISION

division

(noun) the act or process of dividing

division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation

(noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

division

(noun) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

part, section, division

(noun) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; “the written part of the exam”; “the finance section of the company”; “the BBC’s engineering division”

division, variance

(noun) discord that splits a group

division

(noun) an army unit large enough to sustain combat; “two infantry divisions were held in reserve”

division, naval division

(noun) a group of ships of similar type

division, air division

(noun) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

division

(noun) an administrative unit in government or business

division

(noun) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

division

(noun) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

class, division

(noun) a league ranked by quality; “he played baseball in class D for two years”; “Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code

(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

Synonyms

• split, lith

Antonyms

• (making of one thing into two or more things): combination, fusion, merger, unification

• (arithmetic: calculation of the quotient): multiplication

Hyponyms

• division of labour

• subdivision

((COBOL) Hyponyms of division):

• identification division

• environment division

• data division

• procedure division

((military) Hyponyms of division):

• square division

• triangular division

Source: Wiktionary

Di*vi"sion, n. Etym: [F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide.]

1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon.

2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. Communities and divisions of men. Addison.

4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. There was a division among the people. John vii. 43.

5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23.

6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. The motion passed without a division. Macaulay.

7. (Math.)

Definition: The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

8. (Logic)

Definition: The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

9. (Mil.) (a) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. (b) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. (c) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

10. (Naut.)

Definition: One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

11. (Mus.)

Definition: A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

12. (Rhet.)

Definition: The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

13. (Biol.)

Definition: A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom. Cell division (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells.

– Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down.

– Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down;

– used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

Syn.

– compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution; separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection; difference; variance; discord; disunion.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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