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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Act :: Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
Pecora :: Pecora (n. pl.) An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle..
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..
Cenozoic :: Cenozoic (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology..
Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..
Madreporaria :: Madreporaria (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa..
Polycystidea :: Polycystidea (n. pl.) A division of Gregarinae including those that have two or more internal divisions of the body.
Hornblende :: Hornblende (n.) The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. (See Amphibole.) It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species..
Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..
Tripartition :: Tripartition (n.) A division by threes, or into three parts; the taking of a third part of any number or quantity..
Cell :: Cell (n.) A jar of vessel, or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery..
Faction :: Faction (n.) One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.
Pinna :: Pinna (n.) One of the primary divisions of a decompound leaf.
Quotient :: Quotient (n.) The number resulting from the division of one number by another, and showing how often a less number is contained in a greater; thus, the quotient of twelve divided by four is three..
Trionychoidea :: Trionychoidea (n. pl.) A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and allied genera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina..
Set :: Set (n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique..
Tectology :: Tectology (n.) A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See Promorphology, and Morphon..
Verse :: Verse (n.) A short division of any composition.
Time :: Time (n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time..
Segmentation :: Segmentation (n.) The act or process of dividing into segments; specifically (Biol.), a self-division into segments as a result of growth; cell cleavage; cell multiplication; endogenous cell formation..
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