Meaning of Division | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The act or process of dividing anything.
   uncountable
2. division (arithmetic: process of dividing a number by another)
3. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
   countable, uncountable
4. division (military formation)
5. The process of dividing a number by another.
   uncountable
6. A calculation that involves this process.
   countable, uncountable
7. A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
   countable, uncountable
8. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
   countable, uncountable
9. A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
   countable, uncountable
10. An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
    countable, uncountable
11. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
    countable, uncountable
12. A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
    countable, uncountable
13. 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.
    countable, uncountable
14. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
    countable, uncountable
15. A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
    countable, uncountable
16. Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
    countable, uncountable
17. A lesson; a class.
    UK, countable, uncountable
18. A parliamentary constituency.
    Australia, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.”

“Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.”

““Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality.”

“The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.”

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