division

Plural: divisions

Noun

• The act of separating into parts; a disagreement.
• an army unit large enough to sustain combat
  • "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
• one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
  • "the BBC's engineering division"
• the act or process of dividing
• an administrative unit in government or business
• discord that splits a group
• a league ranked by quality
  • "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
• (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
• (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
• a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
• a group of ships of similar type
• an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
• the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
• The act or process of dividing anything.
• Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• The process of dividing a number by another.
• A calculation that involves this process.
• A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
• 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.
• An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
• A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
• 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.
• A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
• Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
• A lesson; a class.
• A parliamentary constituency.

Examples

• I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
• Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
• The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.
• The ’S’ created a clear DIVISION on the board, opening two new lines of play.

Synonyms

air division, class, naval division, part, partition, partitioning, section, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation, variance, div, divisio, lith, phylum, separate, split

Antonyms

combination, fusion, merger, multiplication, unification

Related Words

+ =, /, addition, denominator, divide, dividend, divisibility, divisible, divisive, divisor, fraction, numerator, remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend, separation, × = × =, ÷, ÷ =, − =