noun Download 🔗Share The act or process of dividing anything. Examples : "The division of the large project into smaller tasks made it much easier to complete. " process math part organization essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. Examples : "The cake was cut into four equal divisions for the family. " part essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The process of dividing a number by another. Examples : "The division of the cookies among the four children was straightforward. " math number essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A calculation that involves this process. Examples : "The division problem on the math worksheet required dividing 24 by 6. " math number essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. Examples : "The army's division was deployed to the border region. " military group organization unit essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate. Examples : "The company's marketing division is responsible for advertising campaigns. " business organization essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta." biology organism science essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. Examples : "There was a division among the students about which project to choose for the science fair. " politics society attitude point government essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. Examples : "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." politics government essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The Baroque composer used a division to embellish the slow movement of the sonata. " music essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. Examples : "The pipe organ's division for the bass notes was beautifully tuned. " music organ part essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. Examples : "The bankruptcy court implemented a division of the debt, meaning each partner in the business was only responsible for their share of the company's outstanding loans. " finance law business economy essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code Examples : "The programmer carefully reviewed the division containing the input procedures for the payroll system. " computing part structure technical language essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (Eton College) A lesson; a class. Examples : "The history division was particularly challenging this term. " education language essential Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading