English Explanatory Dictionary

division

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
  9. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
  10. A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
  11. 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.
  12. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈvɪʒn̩/ en-us-division.ogg

Word forms

division divisions

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.

Synonyms

divisio phylum split lith separate partition parting div

Antonyms

combination fusion merger unification multiplication

Related words

/ divide dividend divisibility divisible divisive divisor ÷ separation addition + = denominator fraction numerator remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend − = × = × = ÷ =

Derived words

antidivision asexual division Burdwan division cell division cross-division divisional division algebra divisionary division bell divisionism divisionist divisionless division level division of labor division of labour division ring division sign division table division viol division-viol division violist division-violist divisome equation division equidivision Euclidean division fair division first division harmonic division hyperdivision infradivision interdivision intradivision Jalpaiguri division joy division long division Malda division Medinipur division minor civil division misdivision nondivision overdivision predivision Presidency division pseudodivision redivision reduction division reproductive division school division second division second-division short division subdivision superdivision synthetic division time division trial division upper-division
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