division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈvɪʒən/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Forms: form: divisions
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
Senses: synonyms: split
lith
separate
antonyms: combination
fusion
merger
unification
glosses: The act or process of dividing anything.
glosses: Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
topics: arithmetic
antonyms: multiplication
glosses: The process of dividing a number by another.
examples: text: I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: A calculation that involves this process.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
glosses: A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
examples: text: Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: 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.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
zoology
glosses: An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
examples: text: “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality.
ref: 2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN:
glosses: A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
examples: text: 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.
topics: government
glosses: A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: 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.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
topics: law
glosses: A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
synonyms: word: div
qualifier: Eton College
glosses: A lesson; a class.
glosses: A parliamentary constituency.
Synonyms: topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
mycology
biology
natural-sciences
word: divisio
topics: botany
biology
natural-sciences
mycology
biology
natural-sciences
word: phylum
Derived terms: antidivision
asexual division
Burdwan division
cell division
cross-division
divisional
division algebra
divisionary
division bell
divisionism
divisionist
divisionless
division level
division of labor
division of labour
division ring
division sign
division viol
division-viol
division violist
division-violist
divisome
equation division
equidivision
Euclidean division
fair division
first division
harmonic division
hyperdivision
infradivision
interdivision
intradivision
Jalpaiguri division
joy division
long division
Malda division
Medinipur division
minor civil division
misdivision
nondivision
overdivision
predivision
Presidency division
pseudodivision
redivision
reduction division
reproductive division
school division
second division
second-division
short division
subdivision
superdivision
synthetic division
time division
trial division
upper-division
Related terms: word: /
word: divide
word: dividend
word: divisibility
word: divisible
word: divisive
word: divisor
word: ÷
word: separation
word: addition
english: summation: +
translation: summation: +
alt: summand
word: + =
sense: subtraction
roman: subtrahend
english: difference
translation: difference
word: − =
sense: multiplication; multiplier
roman: multiplicand
english: factor; factor; product
translation: factor; factor; product
word: × = × =
sense: division; dividend
roman: quotient
word: ÷ =
sense: division
word: remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
word: denominator
word: fraction
word: numerator