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Word: division (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
  • arithmetic A calculation that involves this process.
  • uncountable The dividing a number by another.
  • A section of a large company.
  • biology|taxonomy A plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
  • Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
  • legal A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
  • military A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
  • 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.
  • music A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
  • uncountable The act or process of dividing anything.

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