division
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
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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.
Inflected forms:
form: divisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of dividing anything.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of dividing a number by another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A calculation that involves this process.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
gloss: A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
gloss: An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “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.
gloss: A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A lesson; a class.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: A parliamentary constituency.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: divisio
phylum
Related words: /
divide
dividend
divisibility
divisible
divisive
divisor
÷
separation
addition
+ =
denominator
fraction
numerator
remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
Derived words: 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 table
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
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