1. the act or process of dividing.
2. the state of having been divided.
3. mathematics the operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.
4. the proportional distribution of a quantity or entity.
5. something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.
6. one of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.
7. an area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.
8. A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.
9. an administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.
10. A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the U.S. navy.
11. A unit of the U.S. air force larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.
12. botany the highest taxonomic category, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification. see table at taxonomy.
13. A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.
14. variance of opinion; disagreement.
15. A splitting into factions; disunion.
16. the physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.
17. biology cell division.
18. A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

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 section of a large company.
7. A rank (latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
8. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. 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.
10. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
11. A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
12. any of the four major parts of a cobol program source code

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2. the act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
3. that which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
4. the portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
5. disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
6. difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
7. separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the houses of parliament, to ascertain the vote.
8. the process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
9. the separation of a genus into its constituent species.
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11. two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
12. two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
13. one of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
14. one of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
15. A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
16. the distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
17. A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

1. the act of dividing or separating into parts, portions, or shares: as, the division of a word (as by means of a hyphen at the end of a line); the division of labor; the division of profits.
2. specifically— [L. divisio(n-), tr. of gr.
3. in heraldry, the separating of the field by lines in the direction of the bend, the bar, etc. (called division bendwise, barwise, etc.), also for the purpose of impaling two shields together, or in quartering.
4. the separation of members in a legislative house in order to ascertain the vote. this is effected in the british house of commons by the passing of the affirmative and negative sides into separate lobbies, to be counted by tellers; in american legislatures, by their rising alternately, or, as is frequently done in the house of representatives, by passing between tellers standing in front of the speaker's desk. in the british house of commons the usual method of voting on any contested measure is by division; in the united states, by ayes and noes, or affirmative and negative answers on a call of the roll.
5. in mathematics: the operation inverse to multiplication; the finding of a quantity, the quotient, which, multiplied by a given quantity, the divisor, gives another given quantity, the dividend.
6. A rule or method for ascertaining the quotient of a divisor into a dividend: as, long division.
7. A section; the separation of a geometrical figure into two parts.
8. the state of being divided; separation of parts: as, an army weakened by division; divisions among christians.
9. that which divides or separates; a dividing line, partition, or mark of separation; any sign or cause of separation or distinction.
10. A part separated or distinguished in any way from the rest; a minor part or aggregate; a distinct portion: as, the divisions of an orange; a division of mankind or of a country; the divisions of a book or of a discourse.
11. specifically— A definite part of an army or of a fleet, consisting of a certain number of brigades or of vessels under a single commander.
12. A part of a ship's company set apart for a certain service in action. those who serve at the guns are classed as the first, second, third, and fourth divisions; the powder division provide the guns with ammunition; the master's division steer the ship and work the sails; and the engineer's division manage the engines and the boilers.
13. A geographical military command, consisting of two or more departments. thus, the military division of the missouri consists of the department of Dakota, the department of the Platte, the department of the missouri, and the department of texas. the united states is divided for military purposes at the present time (1889) into three divisions—the divisions of the atlantic, the missouri, and the pacific.
14. in natural history: in zoölogical classification, any group of species forming a part of a larger group: in entomology, sometimes specifically applied to a group smaller than a suborder and larger than a family, as the division Gymnocerata of the Heteroptera. A section may be equivalent in value to a division, or a group subordinate to it; a series is a division in which the minor groups show a regular gradation in structure. in botanical classification, one of the higher grades in the sequence of groups, equivalent to subkingdom or series, as the phænogamous and cryptogamous divisions of plants. it is also often used as subordinate to class, as the polypetalous, apetalous, etc., divisions of dicotyledonous plants. by some authors it has been used to designate a grade between tribe and order.
15. the state of being divided in sentiment or interest; disunion; discord; variance; difference.
16. in music, a rapid and florid melodic passage or phrase, usually intended to be sung at one breath to a single syllable: so called because originally conceived as the elaboration of a phrase of long tones by the division of each into several short ones. it was common in the music of the eighteenth century.
17. the precise statement of the points at issue in any dispute.
18. see the extracts.
19. A rule for dividing one number by another, so as to obtain the entire period of the circulating decimal of the quotient. both dividend and divisor are multiplied by the same number so as to make the last significant figure of the divisor 9. by striking off from the divisor so multiplied the 9, together with any ciphers which may follow it, and increasing the truncated remnant by 1, a number is obtained called the current multiplier. the last figure of the multiplied dividend is now struck off, multiplied by the current multiplier, and the product added to the truncated dividend. the sum is treated as a new dividend; and this process is continued until the dividends begin to repeat themselves. the successive figures struck off from the dividend from last to first are now written down from left to right as a whole number, and subtracted from the circulating part of the same figures repeated indefinitely into the decimal places. the remainder, after shifting the decimal point as many places to the left as there were zeros struck off from the divisor along with the 9, is the quotient sought.
20. the rule was derived from arabian writers.
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22. section, portion, etc. (see part, n.), compartment, class, head, category, detachment.
23. disagreement, breach, rupture, alienation.
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25. in biology, the breaking up of an organism, either naturally or artificially, into two or more parts which restore what is lacking and become new organisms of the typical form, as contrasted with reproduction by buds, which begin as small parts of the parent organism and gradually increase in size until they attain the typical form.

1. a league ranked by quality
2. the act or process of dividing
3. a group of ships of similar type
4. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
5. a unit of the united states air force usually comprising two or more wings
6. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
7. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
8. an administrative unit in government or business
9. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
10. discord that splits a group
11. an army unit large enough to sustain combat
12. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category