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Division   /dɪvˈɪʒən/   Listen
Division

noun
1.
An army unit large enough to sustain combat.
2.
One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.  Synonyms: part, section.  "The finance section of the company" , "The BBC's engineering division"
3.
The act or process of dividing.
4.
An administrative unit in government or business.
5.
Discord that splits a group.  Synonym: variance.
6.
A league ranked by quality.  Synonym: class.  "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
7.
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category.
8.
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum.
9.
A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings.  Synonym: air division.
10.
A group of ships of similar type.  Synonym: naval division.
11.
An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
12.
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.  Synonyms: partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation.



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"Division" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lent; some excellent persons renounce all worldly amusements; others, not quite so excellent, and both lots thinking, it may be, no small beer of themselves, we may term the first lot Treble Excellent and the second Double Excellent—the latter division think that concerts possibly, sacred concerts certainly, and certain other forms of mild and non-theatrical entertainments, are of a sufficiently severe character to constitute, as it were, a form of discipline. Then there are the larger proportion of those "who," as Mrs. ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various

... see if we cannot form an estimate by elementary considerations as to the division of the labour. The tides raised on Jupiter by the sun will be practically proportional to the sun's mass and to the radius of Jupiter. Owing to the enormous size of the sun, the efficiency of these tides and the moment of the friction-brake ...
— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

... The reflector box, A, the doors and shade wings, B B, the bars, C C, the non-reflecting division, D D, surrounding and between the several mirrors, the base board, F, and the slide board, G, and the double pivot, H, when used for ...
— Scientific American, Vol. 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 • Various

... The division of the range country into small farms and the raising of all kinds of crops have, it is claimed, done more to decrease our herds of antelope, elk, deer and other big game than have the rifles of the hunters. The plow and harrow have driven the wild life back into the rougher country. ...
— The School Book of Forestry • Charles Lathrop Pack

... now. Their sentiment had set a colour hardly less visible than a material one on surrounding objects, as sentiment must where life is but thought. Nicholas was as devoted as ever to the fair Christine; but unhappily he too had moods and humours, and the division ...
— A Changed Man and Other Tales • Thomas Hardy


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