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Noun division has 12 senses
- division - an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
--1 is a kind of army unit
--1 is a member of corps
--1 has member: battle group
--1 has particulars:
- part, section, division - 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"
--2 is a kind of concept, conception, construct
--2 is a part of whole
--2 has particulars:
- division - the act or process of dividing
--3 is a kind of separation
--3 has particulars: | | parcellation; cleavage; bisection; quartering; schism, split; cut, cutting; atomization, atomisation, fragmentation; branching, ramification, fork, forking; dichotomization, dichotomisation; quantization, quantisation; fractionation; syllabication, syllabification; word division, hyphenation; cut, cutting |
- division - an administrative unit in government or business
--4 is a kind of administrative unit, administrative body
--4 is a member of
--4 has particulars: department, section; branch, subdivision, arm
- division - an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
--5 is a kind of arithmetic operation
--5 has particulars: long division; short division
- division, variance - discord that splits a group
--6 is a kind of discord, dissension
- class, division - a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
--7 is a kind of league, conference
- division - (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
--8 is a kind of biological group
--8 has particulars: | | division Archaebacteria; division Eubacteria; Cyanophyta, division Cyanophyta; Schizophyta, division Schizophyta; Heterokontophyta, division Heterokontophyta; Chrysophyta, division Chrysophyta; Phaeophyta, division Phaeophyta; Euglenophyta, division Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta, division Chlorophyta; Rhodophyta, division Rhodophyta; Cynodontia, division Cynodontia; Dicynodontia, division Dicynodontia; Pisces; form division |
- division - (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
--9 is a kind of phylum
--9 has particulars: | | Protista, division Protista; Thallophyta; Tracheophyta, division Tracheophyta; Bryophyta, division Bryophyta; Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta; Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta; Phanerogamae; Cryptogamia; Pteropsida, subdivision Pteropsida; Zygomycota, subdivision Zygomycota, Zygomycotina, subdivision Zygomycotina; Myxomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota; Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina; Lichenes, division Lichenes; Eumycota, division Eumycota; Deuteromycota, subdivision Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, Fungi imperfecti, subdivision Deuteromycotina; Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina; Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina; Lycophyta |
- division, air division - a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
--10 is a kind of air unit
--10 has parts: wing
- division, naval division - a group of ships of similar type
--11 is a kind of naval unit
- division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation - the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
--12 is a kind of separation
--12 has particulars: subdivision; septation; zoning
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