Division - Definition

n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry
divisions were held in reserve"
2: one of the portions into which something is regarded as
divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written
part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the
BBC's engineering division" [syn: part, section,
division]
3: the act or process of dividing
4: an administrative unit in government or business
5: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance]
6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn: class, division]
7: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a
larger category
8: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
9: a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two
or more wings [syn: division, air division]
10: a group of ships of similar type [syn: division, naval
division]
11: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of
multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the
creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn:
division, partition, partitioning, segmentation,
sectionalization, sectionalisation]