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division

See also: Division and división

English

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Etymology

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PIE word
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From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɪˈvɪʒn̩/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪʒən

Noun

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division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

  1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
    Synonyms: split, lith, separate
    Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
  2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  4. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
    Antonym: multiplication
  5. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
    I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
  6. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
    Hyponyms: square division, triangular division
  7. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
  8. (taxonomy)
    1. (botany, mycology) 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.
      Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
    2. (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
  9. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
    • 2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN‎[1]:
      “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.
  10. (government) A 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. (music) 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.
  12. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  13. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
  14. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
    Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division
  15. (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
    Synonym: (informal) div
  16. (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Latin divisio

Noun

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division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)

  1. (sports) league
  2. (arithmetic) division
  3. (military) division
  4. (business) department, section, branch

Declension

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Declension of division
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative division divisionen divisioner divisionerne
genitive divisions divisionens divisioners divisionernes

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Latin divisiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”).

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Noun

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division f (plural divisions)

  1. division (act or process of dividing)
  2. (arithmetic) division
  3. (military) division
  4. division (subsection)
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Descendants

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  • → English: division
  • → German: Division (military)
  • → Polish: dywizja

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Middle English

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Noun

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division

  1. alternative form of divisioun

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionis, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”).

Noun

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division c

  1. division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
  2. (sports) division, league; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others

Declension

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Declension of division
nominative genitive
singular indefinite division divisions
definite divisionen divisionens
plural indefinite divisioner divisioners
definite divisionerna divisionernas

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