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Division
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- 1 The act or process of dividing anything. uncountable
- 2 the act or process of dividing wordnet
- 3 Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. countable, uncountable
- 4 the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart wordnet
- 5 The process of dividing a number by another. uncountable
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- 6 an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed wordnet
- 7 A calculation that involves this process. countable, uncountable
"I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."
- 8 one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole wordnet
- 9 A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. countable, uncountable
- 10 discord that splits a group wordnet
- 11 A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate. countable, uncountable
- 12 an army unit large enough to sustain combat wordnet
- 13 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. countable, uncountable
"Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta."
- 14 a group of ships of similar type wordnet
- 15 An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank. countable, uncountable
- 16 a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings wordnet
- 17 A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. countable, uncountable
"“Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality."
- 18 an administrative unit in government or business wordnet
- 19 A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 20 (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum wordnet
- 21 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. countable, uncountable
- 22 (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category wordnet
- 23 A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. countable, uncountable
- 24 a league ranked by quality wordnet
- 25 A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. countable, uncountable
- 26 Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code. countable, uncountable
- 27 A lesson; a class. UK, countable, uncountable
- 28 A parliamentary constituency. Australia, countable, uncountable
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
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