division (
http://definr.com/division)
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]
3: the act or process of dividing
4: an administrative unit in government or business
5: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of
multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
6: discord that splits a group [syn:
variance]
7: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
[syn:
class]
8: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a
larger category
9: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
10: a unit of the United States air force usually comprising two
or more wings
11: a group of ships of similar type
12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the
creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn:
partition,
partitioning,
segmentation,
sectionalization,
sectionalisation]