division

Noun

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

   Synonyms:

   split, lith, separate, partition, parting

   Antonyms:

   combination, fusion, merger, unification

2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

   Antonyms:

   multiplication

4. A calculation that involves this process.
   • I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
5. A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. 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.
8. 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.
   • “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...2021 January 19, Jennifer Hansler, Kylie Atwood and Nicole Gaouette, “Pompeo attacks multiculturalism, saying it is ‘not who America is’”, in CNN
10. 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. 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. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.