Definition of 'division'
Noun
- an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
- 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"
Synonyms: part section - the act or process of dividing
- an administrative unit in government or business
- an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- discord that splits a group
Synonyms: variance - a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
Synonyms: class - (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
Synonyms: air division - a group of ships of similar type
Synonyms: naval division - the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
Synonyms: partition partitioning segmentation sectionalization sectionalisation
