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division [n]
 
1)an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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"
    Synonyms :part section 
    See Also: concept  whole  section  beginning  middle  end  high_point  component 
 
3)the act or process of dividing
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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
    Synonyms :
    See Also: administrative_body  authorities  business  department  arm 
 
5)an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
    Synonyms :
    See Also: arithmetic_operation  divide  long_division  short_division 
 
6)discord that splits a group
    Synonyms :variance 
    See Also: discord 
 
7)a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
    Synonyms :class 
    See Also: conference  classify  assort 
 
8)(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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
    Synonyms :
    See Also: 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
    Synonyms :air_division 
    See Also: air_unit  wing 
 
11)a group of ships of similar type
    Synonyms :naval_division 
    See Also: naval_unit 
 
12)the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
    Synonyms :partition partitioning sectionalisation sectionalization segmentation 
    See Also: separation  sectionalise  section  partition  partition  divide  subdivision  septation  zoning 
 




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