Definitions for Division
Division
di·vi·sion
Spelling: [dih-vizh-uh n]
IPA: /dɪˈvɪʒ ən/
Division is a 8 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 99 anagrams from letters in Division (diiinosv).
Definitions for Division
noun
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the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
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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.
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something that divides or separates; partition.
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something that marks a division; dividing line or mark.
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one of the parts into which a thing is divided; section.
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separation by difference of opinion or feeling; disagreement; dissension.
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Government. the separation of a legislature, or the like, into two groups, in taking a vote.
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one of the parts into which a country or an organization is divided for political, judicial, military, or other purposes.
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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.
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a major autonomous or semi-independent but subordinate administrative unit of an industrial enterprise, government bureau, transportation system, or university:
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(in sports) a category or class containing all the teams or competitors grouped together according to standing, skill, weight, age, or the like:
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Botany. a major primary subdivision of the plant kingdom, consisting of one or more classes; plant phylum.
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Zoology. any subdivision of a classificatory group or category.
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Horticulture. a type of propagation in which new plants are grown from segments separated from the parent plant.
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the ornamentation of a melodic line in 17th- and 18th-century music.
Origin of Division
1325-75; Middle English divisioun, devisioun (Anglo-French) Latin dīvīsiōn- (stem of dīvīsiō), equivalent to dīvīs(us) (see divisible) + -iōn- Examples for Division
If there is a division in the Democrat Party, he insists he is not on either side.
If you can get off for an hour, won't you take the trolley to the end of division Street?
It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division.
The cop was not named, but was identified as an African-American veteran of the division with no prior infractions.
division on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861.
Excerpted by permission of Harper Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers.
Sayac means a station or division, Anta is a small town near Cuzco.
Once he graduated in 2006, Simien took a job as a publicity assistant at Rogue, then a division of Focus Features.
Published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC.
But when the division of all this wealth came to be made, lo!