division

noun

1. an army unit large enough to sustain combat; “two infantry divisions were held in reserve”

   Less specific

   • army unit

   More specific

   • Special Forces, U, United States Army Special Forces

   Members

   • battle group

   Member of

   • corps, army corps

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”

   Synonyms

   • part, section

   Less specific

   • concept, conception, construct

   More specific

   • frame, beginning, middle, end, high point, component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient, chukker, chukka, inning, frame, game (more) , turn, bout, round, first period, second period, final period, half, period, quarter, over

   Part of

   • whole

3. the act or process of dividing

   Less specific

   • separation

   More specific

   • parcellation, cleavage, bisection, quartering, schism, split, cut, cutting, atomization, atomisation, fragmentation, branching, ramification, fork, forking (more) , dichotomization, dichotomisation, quantization, quantisation, fractionation, syllabication, syllabification, word division, hyphenation, cut, cutting

4. an administrative unit in government or business

   Less specific

   • administrative unit, administrative body

   More specific

   • department, section, branch, subdivision, arm

   Member of

   • government, authorities, regime, business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation

5. discord that splits a group

   Synonyms

   • variance

   Less specific

   • discord, dissension

6. a league ranked by quality; “he played baseball in class D for two years”; “Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA”

   Synonyms

   • class

   Less specific

   • league, conference

7. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

   Less specific

   • biological group

   More specific

   • division Archaebacteria, division Eubacteria, Cyanophyta, division Cyanophyta, Schizophyta, division Schizophyta, Heterokontophyta, division Heterokontophyta, Chrysophyta, division Chrysophyta, Phaeophyta, division Phaeophyta, Euglenophyta, division Euglenophyta, Chlorophyta (more) , division Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, division Rhodophyta, Cynodontia, division Cynodontia, Dicynodontia, division Dicynodontia, Pisces, form division

8. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

   Less specific

   • phylum

   More specific

   • Protista, division Protista, Thallophyta, Tracheophyta, division Tracheophyta, Bryophyta, division Bryophyta, Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta, Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta, Phanerogamae, Cryptogamia, Pteropsida, subdivision Pteropsida (more) , Zygomycota, subdivision Zygomycota, Zygomycotina, subdivision Zygomycotina, Myxomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota, Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina, Lichenes, division Lichenes, Eumycota, division Eumycota, Deuteromycota, subdivision Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, Fungi imperfecti, subdivision Deuteromycotina, Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina, Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina, Lycophyta

9. a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

   Synonyms

   • air division

   Less specific

   • air unit

   Parts

   • wing

10. a group of ships of similar type

    Synonyms

    • naval division

    Less specific

    • naval unit

11. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

    Less specific

    • arithmetic operation

    More specific

    • long division, short division

12. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

    Synonyms

    • partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation

    Less specific

    • separation

    More specific

    • subdivision, septation, zoning