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      division
      noun
      (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
      Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
      (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
      (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
      (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
      A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
      A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
      (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
      (taxonomy) (botany, mycology) 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.
      (taxonomy) (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
      (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
      (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
      (music) 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.
      (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
      (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
      (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
      Roots
      dividovis- · Latin · divide, separate
      Synonyms for division
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      Words related to division
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