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Division   /dɪvˈɪʒən/   Listen
noun
Division  n.  
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."
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."
4.
Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. "There was a division among the people."
5.
Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. "I will put a division between my people and thy people."
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."
7.
(Math.) 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.
(Mil.)
(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.
(Naut.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
11.
(Mus.) 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.
(Rhet.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
13.
(Biol.) 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 (Biol.), 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 (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down.
Short division (Math.), 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.





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... Demodocus, the bard of the Phaeacians; that double function, in fact, not being in his time contemplated as double, but each part of it so naturally completing the other, that no second word was required. When, however, in the division of labour one made the verses which another chaunted, then 'poet' or 'maker', a word unknown in the Homeric age, arose. In like manner, when 'physicians' were the only natural philosophers, the word covered this meaning as well as that ...
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... the working-class, struggle to obtain possession of the State, that they may use it to destroy every vestige of economic privilege, to abolish private property in the means of production and distribution, and thus put an end to the division of society into classes, and usher in the society of the future, the Co-operative Commonwealth. As the State is in its very nature a class instrument, as its existence is dependent upon the existence of distinct classes, the State in the hands ...
— Socialism: Positive and Negative • Robert Rives La Monte
... literary man, it is easy to explain the necessity of the proper division of the nervous energies between the mind and the body. Any student or literary man who has a daily mental task to do, will do it before he exercises his body to any great extent. If I wished to unfit ...
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... to attain this end, and to preserve the Republic of Poland from the dreadful consequences which must be the result of her internal division, and to rescue her from her utter ruin, but chiefly to withdraw her inhabitants from the horrors of the destructive doctrine which they are but too prone to follow, there is, according to our thorough ...
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