DIVISION





Definition:

  1. [noun] an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"

  2. [noun] 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

  3. [noun] the act or process of dividing

  4. [noun] an administrative unit in government or business

  5. [noun] an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

  6. [noun] discord that splits a group
    Synonyms: variance

  7. [noun] a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
    Synonyms: class

  8. [noun] (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

  9. [noun] (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

  10. [noun] a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
    Synonyms: air

  11. [noun] a group of ships of similar type
    Synonyms: naval

  12. [noun] the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
    Synonyms: partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation

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