Definition of division

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Division (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.

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Herbivora :: Herbivora (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later writers it is generally restricted to the two latter groups (Ungulata). They feed almost exclusively upon vegetation..
Township :: Township (n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county..
Selachostomi :: Selachostomi (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth..
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Branch :: Branch (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
Township :: Township (n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections..
Eurhipidurous :: Eurhipidurous (a.) Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipidurae, a division of Aves which includes all living birds..
Odonata :: Odonata (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.
Decurion :: Decurion (n.) A head or chief over ten; especially, an officer who commanded a division of ten soldiers..
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..
Strain :: Strain (n.) A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement..
Hyoganoidei :: Hyoganoidei (n. pl.) A division of ganoid fishes, including the gar pikes and bowfins..
Digenea :: Digenea (n. pl.) A division of Trematoda in which alternate generations occur, the immediate young not resembling their parents..
Quartering :: Quartering (n.) The division of a shield containing different coats of arms into four or more compartments.
Picariae :: Picariae (n. pl.) An extensive division of birds which includes the woodpeckers, toucans, trogons, hornbills, kingfishers, motmots, rollers, and goatsuckers. By some writers it is made to include also the cuckoos, swifts, and humming birds..
Architrave :: Architrave (n.) The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column..
Epoch :: Epoch (n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
Tetractinellida :: Tetractinellida (n. pl.) A division of Spongiae in which the spicules are siliceous and have four branches diverging at right angles. Called also Tetractinellinae.
Head :: Head (n.) A separate part, or topic, of a discourse; a theme to be expanded; a subdivision; as, the heads of a sermon..
Link :: Link (n.) A single ring or division of a chain.
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