Dictionary

division

Etymology

From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin divisio, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus ("divided"), from dīvidō ("divide").

Pronunciation

IPA: /dɪˈvɪʒən/

Noun

division

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Synonyms: split, lith
Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
Antonyms: multiplication
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
Hyponyms: square division, triangular division
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
(taxonomy) 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.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
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.
(music) 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.
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division
(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
Synonyms: div
(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.