Definition of division

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Division (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.

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Flue :: Flue (n.) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame and smoke to the outer air.
Lucernarida :: lucernarida (n. pl.) A division of acalephs, including Lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also Calycozoa..
Parasita :: Parasita (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata..
Quadrumana :: Quadrumana (n. pl.) A division of the Primates comprising the apes and monkeys; -- so called because the hind foot is usually prehensile, and the great toe opposable somewhat like a thumb. Formerly the Quadrumana were considered an order distinct from the Bimana, which last included man alone..
Amharic :: Amharic (a.) Of or pertaining to Amhara, a division of Abyssinia; as, the Amharic language is closely allied to the Ethiopic..
Sort :: Sort (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness..
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.
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..
Hindbrain :: Hindbrain (n.) The posterior of the three principal divisions of the brain, including the epencephalon and metencephalon. Sometimes restricted to the epencephalon only..
Terebrantia :: Terebrantia (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.
Subdolous :: Subdivision (n.) A part of a thing made by subdividing.
Nome :: Nome (n.) A province or political division, as of modern Greece or ancient Egypt; a nomarchy..
Zyophyte :: Zyophyte (n.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte..
Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..
Gymnoglossa :: Gymnoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
Subdivision :: Subdivisible (a.) Susceptible of subdivision.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) A passageway for the air in speaking and breathing; the windpipe, or one of its divisions..
Van :: Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle..
Holostomata :: Holostomata (n. pl.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture..
Spongida :: Spongiae (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera..
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