Definition of division

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Division (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable..

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Branching :: Branching (n.) The act or state of separation into branches; division into branches; a division or branch.
Canterbury :: Canterbury (n.) A stand with divisions in it for holding music, loose papers, etc..
Proboscidifera :: Proboscidifera (n. pl.) An extensive division of pectinibranchiate gastropods, including those that have a long retractile proboscis, with the mouth at the end, as the cones, whelks, tritons, and cowries. See Illust. of Gastropoda, and of Winkle..
Scholastic :: Scholastic (a.) Hence, characterized by excessive subtilty, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal..
Platyptera :: Platyptera (n. pl.) A division of Pseudoneuroptera including the species which have four broad, flat wings, as the termites, or white-ants, and the stone flies (Perla)..
Bigeminate :: Bigeminate (a.) Having a forked petiole, and a pair of leaflets at the end of each division; biconjugate; twice paired; -- said of a decompound leaf..
Vilayet :: Vilayet (n.) One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.
Hagiographa :: Hagiographa (n. pl.) The last of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament, or that portion not contained in the Law and the Prophets. It comprises Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles..
Molluscoidea :: Molluscoidea (n. pl.) A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; -- called also Anthoid Mollusca.
Department :: Department (v. i.) A part, portion, or subdivision..
Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A line, or long, narrow division of anything of a different color or structure from the ground; hence, any linear variation of color or structure; as, a stripe, or streak, of red on a green ground; a raised stripe..
Chemung Period :: Chemung period () A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology..
Beat :: Beat (n.) The rise or fall of the hand or foot, marking the divisions of time; a division of the measure so marked. In the rhythm of music the beat is the unit..
Graticulation :: Graticulation (n.) The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions..
Areolation :: Areolation (n.) Division into areolae.
Paraphagma :: Paraphagma (n.) One of the outer divisions of an endosternite of Crustacea.
Canton :: Canton (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side..
Division :: Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
Shire :: Shire (n.) A division of a State, embracing several contiguous townships; a county..
Pseudotetramera :: Pseudotetramera (n. pl.) A division of beetles having the fifth tarsal joint minute and obscure, so that there appear to be but four joints..
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