Division - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an administrative unit in government or business
- discord that splits a group (syn: variance)
- a league ranked by quality (syn: class)
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- a group of ships of similar type
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart (syn: partition, partitioning, segmentation)
Extra examples
After learning multiplication, the students were taught division.
They agreed on the division of profits.
A sharp division of opinion was evident among the members.
They put up a division between kitchen and dinette.
Our document contains six principal divisions.
Can he heal the deep divisions among Republican ranks?
The old class divisions had begun to break down.
The Army was plagued by internal divisions.
MPs forced a division on the bill.
Some members supported the opposition in the division lobbies (=the rooms where the vote takes place).
There is a division of the course into 32 lessons.
The division of work between members of the group should be equal.
The team have been promoted to the First Division.
Each army division comprised 4,500 troops.
One division of the company was broken off as a separate entity.
Word forms
singular: division
plural: divisions
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