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Definition of Division

Division

  1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
  2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
  3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
  4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
  5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
  6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
  7. The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
  8. The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
  9. Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
  10. Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
  11. One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
  12. One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
  13. A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
  14. The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
  15. A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

Division Quotations

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.
Mitt Romney

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx
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Division Translations

division in Dutch is divisie, legerafdeling
division in German is Abteilung {f}, Division
division in Italian is compartimento, divisione
division in Latin is discidium
division in Norwegian is deling, divisjon
division in Swedish is division, indelning, indelning, delat med

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