Meaning

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything..

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
5. (military) 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.
8. An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.

Example Sentences

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

Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

“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.

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.

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Use division when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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