division
n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry
divisions were held in reserve"
2: 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" [syn: {part}, {section}]
3: the act or process of dividing or splitting
4: an administrative unit in government or business
5: discord that splits a group [syn: {variance}]
6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn: {class}]
7: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a
larger category
8: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
9: a unit of the US air force usually comprising two or more
wings
10: a group of ships of similar type
11: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of
multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
12: separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or
keeps apart [syn: {partition}, {partitioning}, {segmentation},
{subdivision}, {sectionalization}]