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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