Division (Noun)
Meaning 1
An administrative unit in government or business.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 3
A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 4
An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 5
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".
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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
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- Bout
- Component
- Chukka
- First Period
- Final Period
- Factor
- Quarter
- Game
- Constituent
- Half
- High Point
- Over
- Ingredient
- Chukker
- Beginning
- Inning
- Period
- Frame
- Middle
- Turn
- Second Period
- End
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Meaning 6
The act or process of dividing.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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- Cutting
- Split
- Ramification
- Quantisation
- Atomisation
- Fragmentation
- Fork
- Hyphenation
- Syllabification
- Forking
- Dichotomisation
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Meaning 7
Discord that splits a group.
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 8
A league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 9
A group of ships of similar type.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 10
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 11
An army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 12
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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- Fungi Imperfecti
- Subdivision Zygomycotina
- Mastigomycotina
- Division Lichenes
- Division Gymnomycota
- Ascomycotina
- Division Eumycota
- Subdivision Ascomycota
- Subdivision Pteropsida
- Zygomycotina
- Basidiomycotina
- Gymnomycota
- Subdivision Mastigomycota
- Subdivision Basidiomycota
- Subdivision Deuteromycota
- Subdivision Basidiomycotina
- Subdivision Mastigomycotina
- Division Myxomycota
- Subdivision Ascomycotina
- Division Spermatophyta
- Division Tracheophyta
- Subdivision Zygomycota
- Deuteromycotina
- Division Bryophyta
- Division Pteridophyta
- Division Protista
- Subdivision Deuteromycotina