Pronunciations (3)
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/dɪˈvɪʒn̩/
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/dɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Pronunciation notes
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dɪˈvɪʒən
Noun
The act or process of dividing anything.
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Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
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The process of dividing a number by another.
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A calculation that involves this process.
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I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
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A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
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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.
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Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
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A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
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“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.
A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
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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.
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.
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A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
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A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
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Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
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A lesson; a class.
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A parliamentary constituency.
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Noun
an army unit large enough to sustain combat
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two infantry divisions were held in reserve
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
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the written part of the exam
the finance section of the company
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the BBC's engineering division
the act or process of dividing
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an administrative unit in government or business
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discord that splits a group
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a league ranked by quality
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he played baseball in class D for two years
Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
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(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
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a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
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a group of ships of similar type
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an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
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the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
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