Definition of division

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Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

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Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
Subordinacy :: Suborder (n.) A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositae..
Desegmentation :: Desegmentation (n.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body..
Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a forest.
Pedipalpi :: Pedipalpi (n pl.) A division of Arachnida, including the whip scorpions (Thelyphonus) and allied forms. Sometimes used in a wider sense to include also the true scorpions..
Blastoidea :: Blastoidea (n. pl.) One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.
Trachearia :: Trachearia (n.pl.) A division of Arachnida including those that breathe only by means of tracheae. It includes the mites, ticks, false scorpions, and harvestmen..
Dichotomy :: Dichotomy (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white..
Hemistichal :: Hemistichal (a.) Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, or according to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse..
Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice..
Degree :: Degree (n.) A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer..
Fasciculus :: Fasciculus (n.) A division of a book.
Element :: Element (n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber..
Tripartition :: Tripartition (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity..
Echelon :: Echelon (n.) An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbing. Also used adjectively; as, echelon distance..
Testament :: Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter..
Rhachiglossa :: Rhachiglossa (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods having a retractile proboscis and three longitudinal rows of teeth on the radula. It includes many of the large ornamental shells, as the miters, murices, olives, purpuras, volutes, and whelks. See Illust. in Append..
Army :: Army (n.) A collection or body of men armed for war, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers..
Denominator :: Denominator (n.) That part of any expression under a fractional form which is situated below the horizontal line signifying division.
Lobulette :: Lobulette (n.) A little lobule, or subdivision of a lobule..
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