division

Noun

1. 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. 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,”...
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.