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1.nounThe act or process of dividing anything.
2.nounEach of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3.nounThe process of dividing a number by another.
4.nounA calculation that involves this process."I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."
5.nounA formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
6.nounA usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7.nounA 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.nounA disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9.nounA 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."
10.nounA 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.
11.nounA set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
12.nounA concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
13.nounAny of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
14.noun(Eton College) A lesson; a class.