Meaning

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