Word Finder - division

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The act or process of dividing anything.

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Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

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The process of dividing a number by another.

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A calculation that involves this process.

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I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.

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A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

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A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

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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.

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Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

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A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

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A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

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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.

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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.

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A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

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A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

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Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code

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(Eton College) A lesson; a class.

As each division corresponds to 3 sec.

It is because of the division of labor.

And his division remained under fire for some time quite uselessly.

In the past, we simply had division of labor among people.

Over the course of history, the division of labor has increased human productivity immensely.

Trade and the division of labor have given us vast amounts of wealth.

I liked this, too; but the division of the earth into zones and poles confused and teased my mind.

Go, my dear fellow, and see whether the third division has passed the village.

The second way to create wealth is through the division of labor and trade.

General Campan's division did not seize the first fortification but was driven back, for on emerging from the wood it had to reform under grapeshot, of which Napoleon was unaware.

It had been exercised from the division of 1329 by both branches in turn.

The colonel said that the commander of the division was a mile and a quarter away and would receive Balashev and conduct him to his destination.

To a proposal made by General Campan (who was to attack the fleches) to lead his division through the woods, Napoleon agreed, though the so-called Duke of Elchingen (Ney) ventured to remark that a movement through the woods was dangerous and might disorder the division.

The image of the star is set updn the intersections of the lines of the central cross, and the positions of the reseau-lines are read off by estimation to - of a division on the glass scale.

In 1329 the most important division of the Wittelsbach lands took place.

Overtaking the battalions that continued to advance, he stopped the third division and convinced himself that there really were no sharpshooters in front of our columns.

Technology brings about economic wealth through improved production, facilitation of trade, and promoting the division of labor.

I thought I might just as well describe my pet in order to know it--order, vertebrate; division, quadruped; class, mammalia; genus, felinus; species, cat; individual, Tabby.

The parochia, or parish, an ecclesiastical division, is often used for administrative purposes, but it has no political organization.

The division was decreed December 29, 1906.

The other division lay much nearer to the line between Parahyba and Pernambuco.

Within this broad division, however, have appeared from time to time political groups in bewildering variety, each adopting a party designation according to the exigencies of the moment, but each basing its programme on one or other of the theoretical foundations above mentioned.

The rivers of the second division are included in a very great extension of coast and are influenced by wide differences in climate.

The states are subdivided into cornarcas, or judicial districts, and into municipios, or townships, which is the smallest autonomous division.

The unknown he terms arithmos, the number, and in solutions he marks it by the final s; he explains the generation of powers, the rules for multiplication and division of simple quantities, but he does not treat of the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of compound quantities.

During the winter of 1915 delegates of the Yugoslav Committee, with the Tsar's special permission, began enrolling volunteers from among the prisoners on the Russian front; and by March 1916 a division of 23,000 men had been concentrated at Odessa, and a second was formed later.

The magnificent hall used for academic and public functions was the gift of William M ` Ewan, some time M.P. for the Central division of Edinburgh.

Besancon is important as the seat of an archbishopric, a court of appeal and a court of assizes, as centre of an academie (educational division), as seat of a prefect and as headquarters of the VIIth army corps.

Although the division of the country into terraces separated by ranges of hills is clearly marked in various districts, as for instance between Durban and Colenso, the province is traversed by many secondary chains, as well as by spurs of the Drakensberg.

The South Africa Act 1909 established a Supreme Court of South Africa, the former supreme court of Natal becoming a provincial division of the new supreme court.

Appeals from the circuit courts can be made to the provincial court; and from the provincial court appeals lie to the appellate division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, sitting at Bloemfontein.

Along the south-western border of this division of Mongolia a gigantic border-ridge, the Ektagh (or Mongolian) Altai, runs in an E.S.E.

Language The Magyar or Hungarian language belongs to the northern or Finno-Ugric (q.v.) division of the Ural-Altaic family, and forms, along with Ostiak and Vogul, the Ugric branch of that division.

In the case of division we get two kinds of arithmetical formula, which, however, may be regarded as requiring a single kind of numerical process in order to determine the final result.

A few minutes after the Emperor had passed, the Pavlograd division was ordered to advance.

The town was formerly known as South Stockton, and is still included in the parliamentary borough of Stockton (it is within the Cleveland division of the county), but was incorporated as a separate municipal borough in 1892.

In its application it falls into sharp division in the hands of German and French poets.

In the southeastern division the river system is important.

Cell Division.With the exception of a few plants among the Thallophytes, which consist of a single multinucleate cell, Caulerpa, Vaucheria, &c., the division of the nucleus is followed by the division of the cell either at once, in uninucleate cells, or after a certain number of nuclear divisions, in multinucleate cells.

Belajeff regards it as a true centrosome; but this is doubtful, for while in some cases it appears to be connected with the division of the cell, in others it is independent of it.

The researches of the last twenty years have shown that the structure of the nucleus and the phenomena of nuclear division in these lower forms conforms in all essential details to those in the higher plants.

After the division of the Roman empire, Constantinople became the last refuge of learning, arts and taste; while Alexandria continued to be the emporium whence were imported the commodities of the East.

Granting that the geoid or mean surface of the ocean is a uniform spheroid, the distribution of land and water approximately indicates a division of the surface of the globe into two areas, one of elevation and one of depression.

The natural division of the subregion is that into an African and a Madagascar province.

Division Carinatae.-With keeled sternum.

He was adjutant-general of New York state in 1839-1843, and became a brigadier-general of volunteers in the Union army in 1861, commanded a division in Virginia in 1862-1863, and, being compelled by ill health to resign from the army, was U.S. minister to the Papal States in 1863-1867.

The middle division, which extends from Samsat to Hit, is about 720 m.

By implication Caesar recognizes as a fourth division the province of Gallia Narbonensis.

Prominent among them, and dwelling in the division occupied by the Celts, were the Helvetii, the Sequani and the Aedui, in the basins of the Rhodanus and its tributary the Arar (Saone), who, he says, were reckoned the three most powerful nations in all Gaul; the Arverni in the mountains of Cebenna; the Senones and Carnutes in the basin of the Liger; the Veneti and other Armorican tribes between the mouths of the Liger and Sequana.

The city is a division point on the Toledo, St Louis & Western railway, which has large shops here.