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Vinony

division

noun

  1. group of teams who compete against each other for a championship
  2. distinct and large part of a company
  3. military unit size designation for grouping land forces
  4. arithmetic operation; one of the four basic operations of arithmetic (others being addition, subtraction, multiplication).The division of two natural numbers is the process of calculating the number of times one number is contained within one another
  5. act of splitting, causing separation
  6. distinct part of a ministry of Bangladesh
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/ / /dɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/

noun

Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

  1. The act or process of dividing anything.
  2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  3. The process of dividing a number by another.
  4. A calculation that involves this process.

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

  5. A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
  6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
  7. 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. An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
  9. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

    ““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.”

  10. 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.”

  11. 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.
  12. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  13. A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
  14. Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
  15. A lesson; a class.
  16. A parliamentary constituency.