Significado (Inglés)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
  2. (countable, uncountable) Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  3. (uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
  4. (countable, uncountable) A calculation that involves this process.
  5. (countable, uncountable) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
  6. (countable, uncountable) A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
  7. (countable, uncountable) 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.
  8. (countable, uncountable) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
  9. (countable, uncountable) A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
  10. (countable, uncountable) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
  11. (countable, uncountable) 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.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  13. (countable, uncountable) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
  14. (countable, uncountable) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
  15. (UK, countable, uncountable) A lesson; a class.
  16. (Australia, countable, uncountable) A parliamentary constituency.

Oposto a
combination, fusion, merger, unification, multiplication
Frecuencia

B2
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/dɪˈvɪʒən/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)

In summary

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.

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