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Meaning of division

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  division
      n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry
           divisions were held in reserve"
      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" [syn: {part}, {section},
         {division}]
      3: the act or process of dividing
      4: an administrative unit in government or business
      5: discord that splits a group [syn: {division}, {variance}]
      6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
         for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
         [syn: {class}, {division}]
      7: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a
         larger category
      8: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
      9: a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two
         or more wings [syn: {division}, {air division}]
      10: a group of ships of similar type [syn: {division}, {naval
          division}]
      11: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of
          multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
      12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the
          creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn:
          {division}, {partition}, {partitioning}, {segmentation},
          {sectionalization}, {sectionalisation}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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