Antonym: multiplication. Similar words: envision, provision, decision, divine, divide, visitor, visible, activist. Meaning: [dɪ’vɪʒn] 
n. 1. an army unit large enough to sustain combat 2. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole 3. the act or process of dividing 4. an administrative unit in government or business 5. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed 6. discord that splits a group 7. a league ranked by quality 8. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category 9. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum 10. a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings 11. a group of ships of similar type 12. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.
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(1) Fairness demanded an equal division of the winnings.
(2) Are you any good at division?
(3) He works in the foreign division of the company.
(4) There was a division of opinion on the matter.
(5) Which division of the company do you work in?
(6) First Airborne Division was heavily outgunned by German forces.
(7) Embryos grow by cell division .
(8) Hibernian clinched the First Division title when they beat Hamilton 2-0.
(9) The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.
(10) A hedge forms the division between her land and mine.
(11) Sometimes there is no simple division between good and evil.
(12) The second division flanks on the main of force.
(13) Society is challenging the traditional sexual division of labour.
(14) He’s just been appointed director of the publishing division.
(15) Our regiment is attached to the first division.
(16) We still do long division at school.
(17) Steve climbed rapidly in the sales division.
(18) Division arose over the interpretation of the idea.
(19) The essence of dialectical thought is division.
(20) This division of the chapter has several subdivisions.
(21) They were promoted to the First Division last season.
(22) Unequal distribution of wealth may cause division in society.
(23) The twelfth division mustered on the hill.
(24) Norwich are currently top of Division one.
(25) The Fifth Armoured Division was based at Fort Knox.
(26) He rescued the company and later spun off its textile division into a separate company.
(27) Strategic policy during the War was vitiated because of a sharp division between «easterners» and «westerners».
(28) In future(sentencedict.com/division.html), staff recruitment will fall within the remit of the division manager.
(29) The team has accustomed itself to the pace of first division rugby.
(30) There will be simple tests in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
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In the case of a Hindu, equal division is made between the wife, children and mother
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did everything he could to create division between Israel and Moses
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We are using the large room behind the stage area for changing … men on the left and women on the right with a row of mobile clothing racks down the middle, where we each have our personal designated areas to hang our costumes, giving some sort of modesty division, though to be honest, who the hell wants to gawp? As the play takes place in the present day, the clothes are not really costumes anyway, but, all the same, my character has certain things she has to wear – some my own and some provided by wardrobe
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In chapter 12, he points out that the gifts ought to be a source of unity, not division because they all came from the same source and the church
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Division may occur
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It is sad, but true that in some congregations with an eldership, there is division
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Sometimes this division is even within the eldership itself
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‘Yes, each division has a list of items
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process of division, and everything that exists in the
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Barnstaple Town are playing at home against Frome, a top of the table clash in the Western League Premier Division
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” He had the host make the mathematical division of seven into one
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” a quick division yielded, “192, so I assign RE the vibration 192
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There can tend to be a division between the prophets and
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, division of Random House Publishers
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New York: Vintage Books, division of Random House, 2008
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Had this state continued, the wages of labour would have augmented with all those improvements in its productive powers, to which the division of labour gives occasion
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division worked through those who called themselves children of
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The owner of the stock which employs a great number of labourers necessarily endeavours, for his own advantage, to make such a proper division and distribution of employment, that they may be enabled to produce the greatest quantity of work possible
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They are motivated by a spirit of division and pointing finger
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At the end of each division, too, he will find the average price of the twelve years of which it consists
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Their whole commerce was carried on by barter, and there was accordingly scarce any division of labour among them
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In consequence of better machinery, of greater dexterity, and of a more proper division and distribution of work, all of which are the natural effects of improvement, a much smaller quantity of labour becomes requisite for executing any particular piece of work ; and though, in consequence of the flourishing circumstances of the society, the real price of labour should rise very considerably, yet the great diminution of the quantity will generally much more than compensate the greatest rise which can happen in the price
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There are, indeed, a few manufactures, in which the necessary rise in the real price of the rude materials will more than compensate all the advantages which improvement can introduce into the execution of the work In carpenters’ and joiners’ work, and in the coarser sort of cabinet work, the necessary rise in the real price of barren timber, in consequence of the improvement of land, will more than compensate all the advantages which can be derived from the best machinery, the greatest dexterity, and the most proper division and distribution of work
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In the clothing manufacture, the division of labour is nearly the same now as it was a century ago, and the machinery employed is not very different
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In that rude state of society, in which there is no division of labour, in which exchanges are seldom made, and in which every man provides every thing
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But when the division of labour has once been thoroughly introduced, the produce of a man’s own labour can supply but a very small part of his occasional wants
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As the accumulation of stock must, in the nature of things, be previous to the division of labour, so labour can be more and more subdivided in proportion only as stock is previously more and more accumulated
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As the division of labour advances, therefore, in order to give constant employment to an equal number of workmen, an equal stock of provisions, and a greater stock of materials and tools than what would have been necessary in a ruder state of things, must be accumulated before-hand
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But the number of workmen in every branch of business generally increases with the division of labour in that branch; or rather it is the increase of their number which enables them to class and subdivide themselves in this manner
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OF THE DIVISION OF STOCK
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Division and connection of the word: Laws,
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discussed and established the division of
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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so
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The productive powers of the same number of labourers cannot be increased, but in consequence either of some addition and improvement to those machines and instruments which facilitate and abridge labour, or of more proper division and distribution of employment
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The gains of both are mutual and reciprocal, and the division of labour is in this, as in all other cases, advantageous to all the different persons employed in the various occupations into which it is subdivided
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That the power, and consequently the security of the monarchy, may not be weakened by division, it must descend entire to one of the children
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Helez knew that with each day that passed with their not speaking to each other, the division between them grew larger
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In Europe, the law of primogeniture, and perpetuities of different kinds, prevent the division of great estates, and thereby hinder the multiplication of small proprietors
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By means of it, the narrowness of the home market does not hinder the division of labour in any particular branch of art or manufacture from being carried to the highest perfection
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They tend not to destroy, but to preserve, what it is in most cases advantageous to preserve, the natural division and distribution of labour in the society
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The law which prohibited the manufacturer from exercising the trade of a shopkeeper, endeavoured to force this division in the employment of stock to go on faster than it might otherwise have done
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It obstructed not only that division in the employment of stock which is so advantageous to every society, but it obstructed likewise the improvement and cultivation of the land
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The course of human affairs, by marriage, by succession, and by alienation, necessarily deranged this original division, and frequently threw the lands which had been allotted for the maintenance of many different families, into the
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division with the confusion of rank or
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He was head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia, which investigates the paranormal
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been sent to tell Rex of the coming division
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As the division on Earth grew greater for
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Nevertheless, some of us remain an atheist because religion too, has become a bone of contention, as it has been misused for encouraging discrimination and division
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The core theme is always about ‘Oneness’ and never about fear, hatred, division, domination and all the negativity that so commonly pervades modern society
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the choices of unity or division, love or fear and peace or war
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Should our actions be based on the spirit of unity or division?
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Year 2012 does not equate the end of times but instead the end of an era of imbalance and division
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The perfection of manufacturing industry, it must be remembered, depends altogether upon the division of labour ; and the degree to which the division of labour can be introduced into any manufacture, is necessarily regulated, it has already been shewn, by the extent of the market
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necessary that it should become the sole or principal occupation of a particular class of citizens; and the division of labour is as necessary for the improvement of this, as of every other art
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Into other arts, the division of labour is naturally introduced by the prudence of individuals, who find that they promote their private interest better by confining themselves to a particular trade, than by exercising a great number
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Warlock looks closely at the “4 x 6” screen in his hand-held scanner, “to enable the Security Division of the Atlantica Republic, Alleghenia District to apprehend, return, and interrogate Mr
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“There seems to have been some almighty cock up or something for I have just received orders that the Division is going to advance up the peninsula taking first Krithia and then Achi Baba and from there we will push onto our final objectives
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” I took this in thinking bloody hell the whole Division must have landed and I knew that this put the Battalion in a better position than on the first few days but it still didn’t sound all that convincing
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The whole of the Division is attacking and we also have the French supporting us we are going to advance up the peninsula and our main task is to take Krithia from the Turks
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This ancient division of philosophy into three parts was, in the greater part of the universities of Europe, changed for another into five
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So all day long and far into the night the fatigue parties slogged at unloading and storing everything that the Division needed be it ammunition or water of whatever it all had to be unloaded and stored by hand
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Though the attack had taken its toll on the Division and with no reserves to spare we ended up back in our own trenches were we had started from
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As we stood to that morning it was the 5th of May and the whole of the 42nd Division (East Lancashire Division) was due to land this news of this had filtered down to us the way these things always did in the army
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I knew that he was with the 42nd Division and that he was with the 1/5th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers and that they were part of the 125th Lancashire Fusilier Brigade so he was sure to be landing today and I hoped to god it went well
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We got word later on that the landings were continuing and that casualties had been light and we now heard that the 42nd Division were ready to send some units forward to strengthen our front line
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“There will be a naval bombardment of the Turkish positions and then we and the Lancashire Fusiliers who landed with us who have now officially been amalgamated into the 88th Brigade will attack our targets in fact let me tell you the whole of the 29th Division will be in the attack
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In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two
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It was about 4:30pm when we watched the 29th Division attack along ‘Fir Tree Spur’ only to be repulsed like we were by the Turkish defences
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We set off in the same order as we had the last time we attacked the 29th Division and us with it the 42nd Division using the central route again we heard that the Manchester’s had pressed on for about a thousand yards
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Our Division was doing well also we had gone forward strongly and had captured about two hundred and fifty prisoners but then as usual things started to go wrong and the line started to stall
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The 88th Brigade of the 29th Division and that includes our Company will attack up the left flank then the day after on the 7th August two Brigades of the 42nd Division will attack up the right flank
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Anyway after burying our mate me and Snowy and the rest carried on and eventually made it to the top before the Turks threw in a full Division and pushed us back to the positions we near enough hold to this day
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The division would probably be very different in different circumstances, and a tax of this kind might, according to those different circumstances, affect very unequally, both the inhabitant of the house and the owner of the ground
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The inequality with which a tax of this kind might fall upon the owners of different ground-rents, would arise altogether from the accidental inequality of this division
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In Genesis 1 verse 7 we also see that when God created the firmament, it served as a division between two areas of water
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division in the body, but that the members may have the
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“Is camped a German armour division
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I had wisely chosen to watch the battle from a clearing I had passed in tracking the armour division
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Both in the provinces of the five great farms (called so on account of an ancient division of the duties of customs into five great branches, each of which was originally the subject of a particular farm, though they are now all united into one), and in those which are said to be reckoned foreign, there are many local duties which do not extend beyond a particular town or district
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commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi with
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“We will be part of the 31st Division and will be in the leading wave of the attack altogether you will have to carry about seventy pounds of equipment
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“Our Division the 31st has been given the job of forming the defensive flank of the whole Fourth Army this will involve us driving east to capture the village of Serre and then turning north and consolidating our gains
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But it didn’t worry Division one bit or the General Staff then again it wasn’t them that would be going over the top and having to face the wire with us
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“Well there is one thing you are lucky to have someone representing you at the trial it is only because Colonel Jack Harmon made a thorough bloody nuisance of himself at Division that I was assigned to you
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I was now ready and two Military Policemen pushed me in a wheel chair to a waiting ambulance outside that would take me to Division HQ which was a t Querrieu which was also the HQ for the 4th Army
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“I am Lt Howarth Sir and I am representing the accused it has been cleared by Division
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General Chaffee’s Brigade was ordered to form the advance in conjunction with Lawton’s division, and reached Jaragua at dusk on the 23rd
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The 1st Division, the 1st and 10th Cavalry, and the Rough Riders, with three field batteries, were to capture the advanced positions of Santiago at San Juan, and invest the city on the east
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General Shafter, however, intended that the columns should advance quietly through the woods, and stand ready to make the charge when the artillery had prepared the way and Lawton’s Division had swung to flank the position on the right
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General Sumner took his place at the head of the division
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The whole cavalry division moved forward rapidly
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Turning slightly to the left, the cavalry then charged the main line of entrenchments, soon extending until they touched the centre division, assaulting San Juan
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But as we watched the straw hats bobbing, and an occasional swarthy face, the whole cavalry division reverted from individual firing to rapid volleys, a machine gun turned loose, the infantry on our left were responding strongly, and the enemy withdrew to their first line of entrenchments with loss
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Lawton also moved his division on the night of the 1st, but, through a mistake in the road, he was forced to march through by El Pozo, extending and strengthening the lines on the right early on July 2nd
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This division marched and fought continuously for sixty hours, with nothing but hardtack and one ration of coffee
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The field hospital at Caney had been stampeded by the night alarm, and the wounded had crawled six miles through the mud to the centre division
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The Spaniards finally agreed to surrender the whole division of Santiago; i
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Yes, My servants are unsettled and have come out, for I have pricked them in their hearts, to the cause of the great division
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As a captain in the Polish army, my uniform consisted of high black boots that reached to my knees and a hat with the emblem of the division on its front
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When our division began building the small hospital on the outskirts of the city, I took my car to the city center to see what was happening
Definition of Division
one section of a bigger group
Examples of Division in a sentence
A small division of the police force was sent to the corner of 5th and 4th to serve a warrant.
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Working in the state’s child support division, it was Mrs. Lea’s job to make sure that absent parents took care of their children.
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Only one division of the team will be allowed to take part in the final race.
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The soldier couldn’t decide on a military division at first, but eventually chose the Army.
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Each boxing division has its own weight requirements and rules.
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noun
the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
Arithmetic. the operation inverse to multiplication; the finding of a quantity, the quotient, that when multiplied by a given quantity, the divisor, gives another given quantity, the dividend; the process of ascertaining how many times one number or quantity is contained in another.
something that divides or separates; partition.
something that marks a division; dividing line or mark.
one of the parts into which a thing is divided; section.
separation by difference of opinion or feeling; disagreement; dissension.
Government. the separation of a legislature, or the like, into two groups, in taking a vote.
one of the parts into which a country or an organization is divided for political, judicial, military, or other purposes.
Military.
- (in the army) a major administrative and tactical unit, larger than a regiment or brigade and smaller than a corps: it is usually commanded by a major general.
- (in the navy) a number of ships, usually four, forming a tactical group that is part of a fleet or squadron.
a major autonomous or semi-independent but subordinate administrative unit of an industrial enterprise, government bureau, transportation system, or university: the sales division of our company; the Division of Humanities.
(in sports) a category or class containing all the teams or competitors grouped together according to standing, skill, weight, age, or the like: a team in the first division; the heavyweight division in boxing.
Botany. a major primary subdivision of the plant kingdom, consisting of one or more classes; plant phylum.
Zoology. any subdivision of a classificatory group or category.
Horticulture. a type of propagation in which new plants are grown from segments separated from the parent plant.
the ornamentation of a melodic line in 17th- and 18th-century music.
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Origin of division
1325–75; Middle English divisioun, devisioun (<Anglo-French ) <Latin dīvīsiōn- (stem of dīvīsiō), equivalent to dīvīs(us) (see divisible) + -iōn--ion
synonym study for division
1. Division, partition suggest dividing into parts. Division usually means marking off or separating a whole into parts. Partition often adds the idea of allotting or assigning parts following division: partition of an estate, of a country.
OTHER WORDS FROM division
di·vi·sion·al, di·vi·sion·ar·y, adjectivedi·vi·sion·al·ly, adverbhy·per·di·vi·sion, nounin·ter·di·vi·sion, noun
in·ter·di·vi·sion·al, adjectivein·ter·di·vi·sion·al·ly, adverbmis·di·vi·sion, nounnon·di·vi·sion, nounnon·di·vi·sion·al, adjectivepre·di·vi·sion, nounpro·di·vi·sion, adjectivere·di·vi·sion, nounself-di·vi·sion, nounsem·i·di·vi·sion, nounsu·per·di·vi·sion, noun
Words nearby division
divinylbenzene, divinyl ether, divisi, divisibility, divisible, division, division algebra, division algorithm, divisionism, division of labor, division of labour
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MORE ABOUT DIVISION
What is division?
Division is the act of dividing, or separating, a whole into pieces, as in Mom made a chart that shows the division of chores is fair.
A division is a piece of a whole, often with all divisions being equal in size.
A division is also something used as a dividing line or mark between areas, such as a line of chalk on the sidewalk.
Division can also be used figuratively to refer to a separation caused by a difference of opinion or disagreement, as in The division in our family was caused by a fight over whose macaroni and cheese was better.
In arithmetic, division is the process that involves determining how many times one number is contained in another. For example, if we wanted to know how many times 2 is contained in 8, we would use division to find out, dividing 8 into groups of 2.
Example: All questions related to funding and accounts should be sent to the accounting division.
Where does division come from?
The first records of the term division come from the 1300s. It ultimately comes from the Latin dīvidere, meaning “to divide.” Whether a division refers to a literal or figurative dividing, one part is separated from the whole.
In sports, play is divided up into divisions. In high school sports, a district is broken up into divisions based on how many students a school has, and that district is part of a larger division that is based on the geographic area. In college sports, divisions are created by geography, population, and funding. Finally, in professional sports, divisions are created by geography, both within countries and worldwide, depending on the sport.
In a business or organization, division can be used as a synonym for department. A division of an organization is a group of individuals who work together to accomplish a shared task for the organization, such as a sales division, which focuses on selling products.
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How is division used in real life?
Division is a common word with many uses and senses.
i just found out that the division symbol (÷) is just a blank fraction with dots replacing the numerator and denominator. oh my god.
— abdul 🌌🔭 (@Advil) September 11, 2017
Dallas will host Philadelphia next week in an NFC East Championship game.
Winner takes the division.— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) December 22, 2013
Set-up crew dispatched to Austin, PR division arrived in NYC for 48hr media trip with @AlexanderRossi. Sun’s beating down on Manhattan ☀️🗽
— Manor Racing (@ManorRacing) October 18, 2015
Try using division!
Which of the following is NOT a synonym for division?
A. department
B. whole
C. segment
D. branch
Words related to division
distribution, affiliate, branch, category, class, department, section, sector, segment, share, split, conflict, disagreement, discord, dispute, analysis, apportionment, autopsy, bisection, breaking
How to use division in a sentence
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The division is responsible for protecting the rights of voters.
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The division plans to co-found five to six companies over the next five years and invest $5 million to $8 million in each.
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This “IoT Services” division is not being sold to Nvidia as part of the deal, and will remain owned by Softbank.
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Hemmerling is a former police officer and currently in charge of the criminal and community justice divisions.
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Los Angeles has all-world D-lineman Aaron Donald leading what was a top-10 EPA defense last year, which will help the Rams factor into this division battle despite the hell they’ve found themselves in financially.
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Except the Braves did not win 14 straight pennants (they did win 14 straight division titles), and Smoltz is a also Republican.
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President Eisenhower sent the 101st Airborne Division to force Faubus to admit the students to Central High School.
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So here, for your Christmas Eve pleasure, are 20 of my favorites, 10 from the ecclesiastical division and 10 secular.
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Excerpted by permission of Harper Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
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With each division, in addition to the divisional staff, there were officers detached from the headquarters staff.
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Given one more Division we might try: as things are, my troops won’t cover the mileage.
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In her he felt again, more distinctly than before, another person—division, conflict.
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A second main division of our schooling was mathematical instruction of a sort.
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The fillip given would have been far, far greater than that which the mere numbers (1,200 for the Division) would seem to imply.
British Dictionary definitions for division
noun
the act of dividing or state of being divided
the act of sharing out; distribution
something that divides or keeps apart, such as a boundary
one of the parts, groups, etc, into which something is divided
a part of a government, business, country, etc, that has been made into a unit for administrative, political, or other reasons
a formal vote in Parliament or a similar legislative body
a difference of opinion, esp one that causes separation
(in sports) a section, category, or class organized according to age, weight, skill, etc
a mathematical operation, the inverse of multiplication, in which the quotient of two numbers or quantities is calculated. Usually written: a ÷ b, a b, a / b
- army a major formation, larger than a regiment or brigade but smaller than a corps, containing the necessary arms to sustain independent combat
- navy a group of ships of similar type or a tactical unit of naval aircraft
- air force an organization normally comprising two or more wings with required support units
(plural) navy the assembly of all crew members for the captain’s inspection
biology (in traditional classification systems) a major category of the plant kingdom that contains one or more related classesCompare phylum (def. 1)
horticulture any type of propagation in plants in which a new plant grows from a separated part of the original
logic the fallacy of inferring that the properties of the whole are also true of the parts, as Britain is in debt, so John Smith is in debt
(esp in 17th-century English music) the art of breaking up a melody into quick phrases, esp over a ground bass
Derived forms of division
divisional or divisionary, adjectivedivisionally, adverb
Word Origin for division
C14: from Latin dīvīsiō, from dīvidere to divide
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Scientific definitions for division
The act, process, or operation of finding out how many times one number or quantity is contained in another.
A taxonomic classification within the plant kingdom that ranks immediately above a class and corresponds to a phylum in other kingdoms. See Table at taxonomy.
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