Division

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1. Noun

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

2. Noun

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

3. Noun

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

4. Noun

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

5. Noun

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

6. Noun

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

7. Noun

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. Noun

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

9. Noun

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

10. Noun

Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.

11. Noun

One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

12. Noun

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

13. Noun

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.

14. Noun

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

15. Noun

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

16. 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"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

17. Noun

a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
Vocabulary classified under Academic vocabulary

18. Noun

an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
Vocabulary classified under Mathematics

19. Noun

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
Vocabulary classified under Biology

20. Noun

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
Vocabulary classified under Biology

21. Noun

discord that splits a group
Vocabulary classified under Linguistics
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