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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



... formed exclusively from the "Privy Council." All cards in the other divisions, pack, or talon must ascend through each division till they reach the top before they ...
— Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience - New Revised Edition, including American Games • Adelaide Cadogan
... that, in so doing, he had not compromised any whit of his former professions, either in practice or principle. Now Mr. Butler, doing all credit to his father-in-law's motives, was frequently of opinion that it were better to drop out of memory points of division and separation, and to act in the manner most likely to attract and unite all parties who were serious in religion. Moreover, he was not pleased, as a man and a scholar, to be always dictated to by his unlettered ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... bards and minstrels, who on great festivals sung the deeds of kings and heroes. Both the Egyptians and the Peruvians held agricultural fairs; both took a census of the people. Among both the land was divided per capita among the people; in Judea a new division was made every fifty years. The Peruvians renewed every year all the fires of the kingdom from the Temple of the Sun, the new fire being kindled from concave mirrors by the sun's rays. The Romans under Numa ...
— The Antediluvian World • Ignatius Donnelly
... well as of the manners and customs of ultramarine peoples. In giving an exact idea of what has been done, it will indicate what remains to be done from the standpoint of a general development of commerce and manufactures. Such is the programme of the first division. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various
... Star" in Nashville. In 1887 he was made a Captain in the Tennessee National Guard by Governor R. L. Taylor, In 1888 he was on the invitation committee to invite President Cleveland to Nashville and served on Gen. W. H. Jackson's staff as commander of a division in the parade. In 1893 he was a nominee on the Citizens' ticket for the city council. In 1896 he was appointed a member of the executive committee of the Negro department of the Tennessee Centennial and ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various


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