Word Meanings - DIVISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state

Additional info about word: DIVISION

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed. (more info) 1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation. I was overlooked in the division of the spoil. Gibbon. 2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition. 3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section. Communities and divisions of men. Addison. 4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation. There was a division among the people. John vii. 43. 5. Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast. Chaucer. I will put a division between my people and thy people. Ex. viii. 23. 6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote. The motion passed without a division. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DIVISION)

• Anatomy
• Dissection
• division
• segregation
• analysis
• resolution
• dismemberment
• Compartment
• Division
• partition
• allotment
• sphere
• space
• Department
• Section
• portion
• function
• office
• branch
• province
• line
• Head
• Top
• crown
• chief
• leader
• ruler
• mind
• source
• section
• topic
• gathering
• culmination
• crisis
• leadership
• guide
• commander
• acme
• summit
• Part
• Portion
• piece
• fragment
• fraction
• member
• constituent
• element
• ingredient
• share
• lot
• concern
• interest
• participation
• side
• party
• faction
• behalf
• duty

Related words: (words related to DIVISION)

• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• BRANCHIOSTOMA
  The lancelet. See Amphioxus.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• SECTIONALITY
  The state or quality of being sectional; sectionalism.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• PORTIONIST
  One of the incumbents of a benefice which has two or more rectors or vicars. (more info) 1. A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.
• FACTION
  One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus. 2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority,
• DIVISIONARY
  Divisional.
• RESOLUTIONER
  One who makes a resolution; one who joins with others in a declaration or resolution; specifically, one of a party in the Scottish Church in the 17th century. He was sequestrated afterwards as a Resolutioner. Sir W. Scott.
• SECTIONALIZE
  To divide according to gepgraphical sections or local interests. The principal results of the struggle were to sectionalize parties. Nicilay & Hay .
• BRANCHLESS
  Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• TECTIBRANCHIA
  See TECTIBRANCHIATA
• NUDIBRANCHIATA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• ABRANCHIAL
  Abranchiate.
• PYGOBRANCHIA
  A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiæ in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• PODOBRANCH
  One of branchiæ attached to the bases of the legs in Crustacea.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• ASPIDOBRANCHIA
  A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• LAMELLIBRANCHIATE
  Having lamellar gills; belonging to the Lamellibranchia. -- n.
• EPIBRANCHIAL
  Pertaining to the segment between the ceratobranchial and pharyngobranchial in a branchial arch. -- n.