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division   (TTS Sound)

The noun division has 12 senses

• division -- (an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve")


• part, section, division -- (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")


• division -- (the act or process of dividing)


• division -- (an administrative unit in government or business)


• division, variance -- (discord that splits a group)


• class, division -- (a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA")


• division -- ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)


• division -- ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)


• division, air division -- (a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings)


• division, naval division -- (a group of ships of similar type)


• division -- (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed)


• division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation -- (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)