Results for division

Definitions of division:

part of speech: noun

Separation into parts; a partition; section; discord; two or more army brigades under a general officer; the process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another.

part of speech: noun

The act of dividing or separating into parts; that which divides or separates; the part separated; a compartment; a part or distinct portion, as of an army, a fleet, a discourse; variance; difference; a rule in arithmetic; in either House of Parliament, the separation of the members into two parties for the purpose of voting on opposite sides of a question.

part of speech: adjective

Divisional.

part of speech: noun

Act of dividing: state of being divided: that which divides: a partition: a barrier: the portion divided or separated: separation: difference in opinion, etc.: disunion: ( arith.) the rule or process of finding how many times one number is contained in another.

Usage examples for division:

• The events of last night will, of course, make it impossible for you to again appear in the Division as a candidate. "The Man Who Rose Again", Joseph Hocking

• I found it difficult to make my way through them, but at last fell in with the baggage; I could not, however, get it through, and was obliged to leave it, after giving directions where to find the division in the morning. "Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade", William Surtees

• But there is this general division to be made, on one extreme of which is what we call pure intellect, and on the other pure feeling or emotion. "The Practice and Science Of Drawing", Harold Speed