| division | |
| 1. n. The act or process of dividing anything. | |
| 2. n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. | |
| 3. n. (arithmetic) The process of dividing a number by another. | |
| 4. n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process. | |
| I've got ten divisions to do for my homework. | |
| 5. n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. | |
| 6. n. A section of a large company. | |
| 7. n. (taxonomy) 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. | |
| Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta. | |
| 8. n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. | |
| 9. n. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. | |
| 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. | |
| 10. n. (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. | |
| 11. n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. | |
| 12. n. (legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. | |
| 13. n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code | |
| 14. n. (Eton College) A lesson; a class. | |
