division

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.

Concepts

division

section

partition

department

separation

part

branch

group

class

portion

distribution

classification

unit

subdivision

share

compartment

split

dividing

partitioning

sharing

category

allotment

piece

ward

bureau

apportionment

segmentation

sector

chapter

divide

half

splitting

parting

sort

disunion

kind

squad

splitting up

office

clause

paragraph

sorting

allocation

distinction

area

type

battalion

command

party

segment

difference

variance

breaking up

fission

sectionalisation

sectionalization

pigeonhole

specialization

square

space

demarcation

lane

boundary

break up

block

district

arm

battery

company

corps

band

sect

level

wing

species

cleavage

sub-division

slice

divider

herd

contingent

disagreement

discord

naval division

air division

deal

phylum

detachment

domain

estate

farm

land

property

column

place

side

quota

dividing for administrative purposes

settlement of accounts

toeing the mark

operations department

segmenting

dissemination

discrimination

field

realm

sphere

farewell

fork

offshoot

assign to sections

one field

grade

apportion

categorization

locality

region

passage

point

break

position

army

brigade

garrison

platoon

post

regiment

vanguard

admistrative

county

agency

breakup

branch subdivision

gang

meiosis

mitosis

percentage

ration

denomination

distance

range

strip

arrangement

lot

large part

fold

diaereses

disunity

precinct

divergence

affiliated branch

branch house

branch establishment

minute of angle

dial

plot

scale

compart

segregation

separate

septation

aliquot

equation

equant

halving

volume

service

divide out

exception

shire

divisional

quarrels

dividing wall

subgroup

fragmentation

excerpt

fragment

hyphen

schism

break-up

decomposition

disintegration

breach

breaking

fracture

joint

sharing together

disjunction

dispersion

carve-up

dealing

dissociation

assortment

order

rationing

installment

instalment

graduation line

graduation mark

mark

bit

disorganization

disruption

African gray

long division

pit

scout troop

exposition

batch

cascade

concatenation

nest

nexus

pack

run

series

set

streak

string

succession

suite

province

genus

divided

disunited

military unit

classify

art

assign

depute

dispatch

faction

send

tributary

argument

dissension

singularization

divarication

forking

furcation

crossbeam

crosspiece

damming

rundle

rung

spoke

trave

Department

component

arithmetic

arithmetics

multiplication

quadrivium

subsection

element

graft

analysis

army unit

heap

topic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈvɪʒən/

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.

Sentences

Tea has been planted in the Eastern Division with very steep slopes .