division

Nouns

• (n) an army unit large enough to sustain combat
  • two infantry divisions were held in reserve
• (n) one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
  • the written part of the exam
  • the finance section of the company
  • the BBC's engineering division
  section, part,
• (n) the act or process of dividing
• (n) an administrative unit in government or business
• (n) discord that splits a group variance,
• (n) a league ranked by quality
  • he played baseball in class D for two years
  • Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
  class,
• (n) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
• (n) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
• (n) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings air division,
• (n) a group of ships of similar type naval division,
• (n) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
• (n) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart sectionalisation, sectionalization, partitioning, segmentation, partition,

Synonyms

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