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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.