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division

the act or process of dividing

the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

discord that splits a group

an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"

a group of ships of similar type

a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

an administrative unit in government or business

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

Synonyms:

• Australian ballot,
• Hare system,
• Jim Crow,
• KP,
• Naval Construction Battalion,
• RN,
• Royal Navy,
• Seabees,
• USN,
• United States Navy,
• aberration,
• abstraction,
• addition,
• adjunct,
• affiliate,
• affiliation,
• age group,
• agreement to disagree,
• airspace,
• alien,
• alienation,
• allotment,
• alteration,
• anacrusis,
• analysis,
• analyzation,
• anatomization,
• anatomizing,
• anatomy,
• apartheid,
• apportioning,
• apportionment,
• approximation,
• area,
• argosy,
• arm,
• armada,
• army,
• army group,
• arrangement,
• assay,
• assaying,
• atomization,
• aye,
• ballot,
• band,
• barrier,
• bass passage,
• battalion,
• battery,
• battle group,
• belt,
• bevy,
• bifidity,
• bifurcation,
• bipartition,
• bisection,
• blood,
• body,
• border,
• borderline,
• boundary line,
• bourdon,
• bracket,
• branch,
• branch office,
• branching,
• brattice,
• breach,
• breach of friendship,
• break,
• breakaway group,
• breakdown,
• breaking down,
• breaking up,
• breakup,
• bridge,
• brigade,
• budgeting,
• buffer,
• buffer state,
• bulkhead,
• bumper,
• bunch,
• burden,
• by two,
• cabal,
• cadence,
• cadre,
• camp,
• canvass,
• canvassing,
• cast,
• caste,
• casting vote,
• cataloging,
• categorization,
• category,
• caucus,
• census,
• centrifugence,
• change,
• chapter,
• chorus,
• church,
• clan,
• class,
• classification,
• cleavage,
• cleft,
• clique,
• cloison,
• cloture,
• coast guard,
• coda,
• codification,
• cohort,
• collision mat,
• color bar,
• column,
• combat command,
• combat team,
• committee consideration,
• communion,
• community,
• company,
• compartment,
• complement,
• component,
• composition,
• confines,
• conflict,
• constituents,
• content,
• contents,
• continental shelf,
• contingent,
• contradistinction,
• corps,
• corridor,
• coterie,
• counting heads,
• country,
• covey,
• crew,
• cross section,
• cross-purposes,
• crowd,
• cumulative voting,
• cushion,
• cut,
• cutting,
• cutting in two,
• cutting the pie,
• debate,
• decentralization,
• deciding vote,
• deliberation,
• demarcation,
• denomination,
• department,
• deployment,
• desynonymization,
• detachment,
• detail,
• development,
• deviation,
• diaphragm,
• dichotomy,
• difference,
• difference of opinion,
• differencing,
• differentiation,
• difficulty,
• dimidiation,
• disaccord,
• disaffection,
• disagreement,
• disarticulation,
• disassociation,
• disconnectedness,
• disconnection,
• discontinuity,
• discord,
• discrimination,
• disengagement,
• disequalization,
• disfavor,
• disharmony,
• disjointing,
• disjunction,
• dislocation,
• disparity,
• disruption,
• dissection,
• dissension,
• dissent,
• dissepiment,
• dissidence,
• dissolution,
• dissonance,
• distinction,
• distinctiveness,
• distinguishment,
• district,
• disunion,
• disunity,
• divarication,
• divergence,
• divergency,
• diversification,
• dividedness,
• dividing,
• dividing line,
• dividing wall,
• divisions,
• divorce,
• divorcement,
• divvy,
• docimasy,
• dole,
• elements,
• enfranchisement,
• environs,
• equation,
• escadrille,
• estate,
• estrangement,
• ethnic group,
• ethnocentrism,
• evolution,
• exclusiveness,
• exposition,
• extrapolation,
• faction,
• fagot vote,
• falling-out,
• fanning,
• fanning out,
• fellowship,
• fender,
• field army,
• field train,
• figure,
• file,
• filibuster,
• filibustering,
• filing,
• first reading,
• fleet,
• flotilla,
• flying column,
• folderol,
• foreigner,
• forking,
• fraction,
• franchise,
• frontier,
• gang,
• garrison,
• grade,
• grading,
• graveyard vote,
• gravimetric analysis,
• ground,
• group,
• grouping,
• groupment,
• guts,
• hairsplitting,
• halving,
• hand vote,
• harmonic close,
• head,
• heading,
• heartland,
• hinterland,
• in half,
• in-group,
• incoherence,
• index,
• indexing,
• individualization,
• individuation,
• ingredients,
• innards,
• insides,
• installment,
• insularity,
• insulation,
• integration,
• interest,
• interest group,
• interlude,
• intermezzo,
• interpolation,
• interseptum,
• introduction,
• introductory phrase,
• inventory,
• inversion,
• involution,
• isolation,
• item,
• items,
• junta,
• kin,
• kitchen police,
• know-nothingism,
• label,
• land,
• legion,
• level,
• line,
• list,
• list system,
• local,
• lodge,
• logrolling,
• luxation,
• maniple,
• margin,
• marine,
• mat,
• measure,
• member,
• merchant fleet,
• merchant marine,
• merchant navy,
• microscopic distinction,
• midriff,
• midsection,
• milieu,
• minority group,
• misunderstanding,
• mob,
• modification,
• moiety,
• mosquito fleet,
• movement,
• multiplication,
• musical phrase,
• musical sentence,
• narrowness,
• naval forces,
• naval militia,
• naval reserve,
• navy,
• nay,
• neighborhood,
• nice distinction,
• no,
• nontransferable vote,
• notation,
• nuance,
• odds,
• offshoot,
• offshore rights,
• open rupture,
• order,
• organ,
• organization,
• ornament,
• out-group,
• outcast,
• outfit,
• outsider,
• pack,
• pad,
• panel,
• parcel,
• parceling,
• paries,
• parochialism,
• part,
• particular,
• particularization,
• parting,
• partition,
• partitioning,
• parts,
• party,
• party wall,
• passage,
• peer group,
• percentage,
• period,
• persona non grata,
• personalization,
• persuasion,
• phalanx,
• phrase,
• piece,
• pigeonhole,
• pigeonholing,
• place,
• placement,
• platoon,
• plebiscite,
• plebiscitum,
• plumper,
• plural vote,
• polarization,
• political party,
• poll,
• polling,
• portion,
• portioning,
• position,
• posse,
• post,
• practice,
• precincts,
• predicament,
• preferential voting,
• premises,
• pressure group,
• property line,
• proportion,
• proportional representation,
• proximate analysis,
• proxy,
• purlieus,
• quadrant,
• quantitative analysis,
• quarantine,
• quarter,
• quota,
• race,
• race hatred,
• racial segregation,
• ramification,
• random sample,
• ranging,
• rank,
• ranking,
• rating,
• rationing,
• recall of ambassadors,
• record vote,
• reduction,
• reduction to elements,
• referendum,
• refrain,
• regiment,
• region,
• religious order,
• remainder,
• removal,
• repartition,
• representation,
• resolution,
• response,
• rift,
• right to vote,
• rising vote,
• ritornello,
• roll call,
• rubric,
• rupture,
• salient,
• salon,
• sample,
• sampling,
• say,
• schism,
• school,
• seclusion,
• second reading,
• secret ballot,
• sect,
• sectarism,
• section,
• sectioning,
• sector,
• segment,
• segmentation,
• segmenting,
• segregation,
• semimicroanalysis,
• separating,
• separation,
• separatism,
• sept,
• septulum,
• septum,
• set,
• severalization,
• severance,
• shade of difference,
• share,
• sharing,
• sharing out,
• shock pad,
• show of hands,
• side,
• silent majority,
• single vote,
• slicing,
• snap vote,
• snobbishness,
• society,
• soil,
• sorting,
• space,
• specialization,
• splaying,
• splinter,
• splinter group,
• split,
• split-up,
• splitting,
• spread,
• spreading,
• spreading out,
• squad,
• squadron,
• stable,
• stanza,
• statement,
• station,
• status,
• steamroller methods,
• strain,
• stranger,
• stratification,
• stratum,
• straw vote,
• strife,
• string,
• subdivision,
• subgroup,
• suborder,
• subspecies,
• subtle distinction,
• subtraction,
• suffrage,
• tabling,
• tabulation,
• tactical unit,
• tailpiece,
• talkathon,
• task force,
• task group,
• taxonomy,
• team,
• terrain,
• territory,
• third reading,
• three-mile limit,
• tightness,
• title,
• train,
• transferable vote,
• transformation,
• tribe,
• trichoschistism,
• troop,
• troupe,
• tutti,
• tutti passage,
• twelve-mile limit,
• typology,
• unit,
• upset,
• variance,
• variation,
• variety,
• verse,
• version,
• vicinage,
• vicinity,
• viva voce,
• vocal minority,
• voice,
• voice vote,
• vote,
• voting,
• voting right,
• wall,
• whole,
• wing,
• withdrawal,
• write-in,
• write-in vote,
• xenophobia,
• yea,
• yeas and nays,
• yes,
• zone,
• zoning