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division [n]

1)	an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"

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army_unit corps special_forces battle_group

2)	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"

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part section

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concept whole section beginning middle end high_point component

3)	the act or process of dividing

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separation carve_up parcellation cleavage bisection quartering schism cut atomisation branching dichotomisation quantisation fractionation syllabication hyphenation cut

4)	an administrative unit in government or business

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administrative_body authorities business department arm

5)	an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

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arithmetic_operation divide long_division short_division

6)	discord that splits a group

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variance

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discord

7)	a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"

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class

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conference classify assort

8)	(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

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biological_group biological_science division_archaebacteria division_eubacteria cyanophyta division_schizophyta division_heterokontophyta chrysophyta division_phaeophyta division_euglenophyta chlorophyta division_rhodophyta cynodontia dicynodontia pisces form_division

9)	(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

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phylum botany division_protista thallophyta division_tracheophyta bryophyta division_pteridophyta division_spermatophyta phanerogamae cryptogamia pteropsida subdivision_zygomycota division_gymnomycota mastigomycota division_lichenes division_eumycota deuteromycota basidiomycota ascomycota lycophyta

10)

a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

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air_division

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air_unit wing

11)

a group of ships of similar type

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naval_division

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naval_unit

12)

the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

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partition partitioning sectionalisation sectionalization segmentation

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separation sectionalise section partition partition divide subdivision septation zoning

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