division

plural divisions

1. uncountableThe act or process of dividing anything.

   Synonyms: split, lith, separate, partition, parting · Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification

2. countableuncountableEach of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. uncountablearithmeticThe process of dividing a number by another.

   Antonyms: multiplication

4. countableuncountablearithmeticA calculation that involves this process.

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

5. countableuncountablegovernmentA formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
6. countableuncountableA usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. countableuncountablebiologyA rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

   Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

8. countableuncountablebiologyAn optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
9. countableuncountableA disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

   1 more example

   “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.

   2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN

10. countableuncountablegovernmentA method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

    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.

11. countableuncountableentertainmentA 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.
12. countableuncountableentertainmentA set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
13. countableuncountablelawA concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
14. countableuncountablecomputingAny of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
15. UKcountableuncountableEton CollegeA lesson; a class.

    Synonyms: div

16. AustraliacountableuncountableA parliamentary constituency.