division
NounOpen English WordNet
Noun (12)divisions
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat“two infantry divisions were held in reserve”Type of army unitKinds Spetsnaz, Special ForcesMember of corps, army corpsMembers battle group
- 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: partsectionType of concept, conceptionKinds component, inning, end, beginning, middle, turn, final period, game, first period, chukker +7 morePart of whole
- the act or process of dividingType of separationKinds branching, fractionation, atomization, schism, cut, parcellation, dichotomization, word division, syllabication, bisection +3 more
- an administrative unit in government or businessType of administrative unit, administrative bodyKinds department, branchMember of government, business
- discord that splits a groupSynonyms: varianceType of discord, dissension
- a league ranked by quality“he played baseball in class D for two years”“Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”Synonyms: classType of league, conference
- (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wingsSynonyms: air division
- a group of ships of similar typeSynonyms: naval division
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apartSynonyms: partitionpartitioningsegmentationsectionalizationsectionalisation
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Translations
Noun large military unit
- Spanish
- división
- French
- division
- German
- Division
- Italian
- divisione
- Portuguese
- divisão
- Turkish
- tümen
- Russian
- диви́зия divízija
- Arabic
- فِرْقَة firqa
- Chinese
- 师 shī
- Japanese
- 師団 shidan
22 more languages
- Dutch
- divisie
- Polish
- dywizja
- Swedish
- division
- Greek
- μεραρχία merarchía
- Korean
- 나눗셈 nanutsem
- Indonesian
- divisi
- Vietnamese
- sư đoàn
- Hungarian
- osztás
- Portuguese (PT)
- divisão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 師團 shītuán
- Catalan
- divisió
- Czech
- divize
- Danish
- division
- Esperanto
- divizio
- Estonian
- diviis
- Finnish
- divisioona
- Hebrew
- חילוק khilúk
- Icelandic
- deild
- Lithuanian
- dalyba
- Norwegian
- divisjon
- Romanian
- divizie
- Slovenian
- divizija
Noun dividing numbers (arithmetic)
- Spanish
- división
- French
- division
- German
- Division
- Italian
- divisione
- Portuguese
- divisão
- Turkish
- bölme
- Russian
- деле́ние delénije
- Arabic
- قِسْمَة qisma
- Chinese
- 除法 chúfǎ
- Japanese
- 割り算 warizan
23 more languages
- Dutch
- deling
- Polish
- dzielenie
- Swedish
- division
- Greek
- διαίρεση diaíresi
- Korean
- 나눗셈 nanutsem
- Indonesian
- pembagian
- Vietnamese
- phép chia
- Hungarian
- osztás
- Portuguese (PT)
- divisão
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 除法 chúfǎ
- Catalan
- divisió
- Czech
- dělení
- Danish
- division
- Esperanto
- divido
- Finnish
- jako
- Icelandic
- deiling
- Latvian
- dalīšana
- Lithuanian
- dalyba
- Norwegian
- divisjon
- Romanian
- împărțire
- Scottish Gaelic
- roinneadh
- Swahili
- mgawanyo
- Welsh
- rhaniad
Noun act or process of dividing anything
- Spanish
- división
- French
- division
- German
- Teilung
- Italian
- divisione
- Portuguese
- divisão
- Turkish
- bölme
- Russian
- деле́ние delénije
- Arabic
- تَقْسِيم taqsīm
- Chinese
- 划分 huàfēn
- Japanese
- 分割 bunkatsu
21 more languages
- Dutch
- deling
- Polish
- podział
- Swedish
- division
- Greek
- διαίρεση diaíresi
- Korean
- 분할 bunhal
- Indonesian
- divisi
- Hungarian
- osztás
- Portuguese (PT)
- divisão
- Catalan
- divisió
- Czech
- dělení
- Danish
- deling
- Esperanto
- divido
- Finnish
- jako
- Hebrew
- חלוקה khaluká
- Icelandic
- skipting
- Latvian
- dalīšana
- Norwegian
- divisjon
- Romanian
- divizare
- Serbo-Croatian
- podjela
- Swahili
- farakano
- Welsh
- rhaniad
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. division, L. divisio, from dividere. See Divide.
1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.— Edward Gibbon
2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
Communities and divisions of men.— Joseph Addison
4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
There was a division among the people.— John vii. 43.
5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Geoffrey Chaucer
I will put a division between my people and thy people.— Ex. viii. 23.
6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
The motion passed without a division.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
7. Mathematics 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.
8. Logic The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
9. Military (a) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer. (b) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion. (c) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
10. Nautical One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
11. Music 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.
12. Rhetoric The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
13. Biology A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Cell division Biology, a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. — Long division Mathematics, the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. — Short division Mathematics, the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; — used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.
Synonyms: compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution; separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection; difference; variance; discord; disunion.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54