division🔊

The act or process of dividing anything. +

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

(arithmetic) The process of dividing a number by another.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

(taxonomy, botany, mycology) 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.

(taxonomy, zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

(music) 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.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

(law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.