Definition of division

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Division (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote..

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Arthropoda :: Arthropoda (n. pl.) A large division of Articulata, embracing all those that have jointed legs. It includes Insects, Arachnida, Pychnogonida, and Crustacea..
Subuliform :: Subulicornes (n. pl.) A division of insects having slender or subulate antennae. The dragon flies and May flies are examples.
Part :: Part (n.) An equal constituent portion; one of several or many like quantities, numbers, etc., into which anything is divided, or of which it is composed; proportional division or ingredient..
Depart :: Depart (n.) Division; separation, as of compound substances into their ingredients..
Ethnology :: Ethnology (n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them..
Class :: Class (n.) A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc..
Compartition :: Compartition (n.) The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.
Blastomere :: Blastomere (n.) One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
Agrarian :: Agrarian (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens..
Echiuroidea :: Echiuroidea (n. pl.) A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans..
Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc..
Trithing :: Trithing (n.) One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding.
Paragraph :: Paragraph (n.) Originally, a marginal mark or note, set in the margin to call attention to something in the text, e. g., a change of subject; now, the character /, commonly used in the text as a reference mark to a footnote, or to indicate the place of a division into sections..
Gordiacea :: Gordiacea (n. pl.) A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or hair eels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix..
Protoplasta :: Protoplasta (n. pl.) A division of fresh-water rhizopods including those that have a soft body and delicate branched pseudopodia. The genus Gromia is one of the best-known.
Horometry :: Horometry (n.) The art, practice, or method of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions..
Proctotomy :: Proctotomy (n.) An incision into the rectum, as for the division of a stricture..
Monitor :: Monitor (n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class..
Praetores :: Praetores (n. pl.) A division of butterflies including the satyrs.
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