Definition of Division

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Division

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.

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

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

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.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

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Division Quotations

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.
Karl Marx

Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.
Joseph Stalin

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Rahm Emanuel

Where the whole man is involved there is no work. Work begins with the division of labor.
Marshall McLuhan

There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion.
Cat Stevens

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.
Angela Davis

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Samuel Butler

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson

Division Translations

division in Dutch is divisie, legerafdeling
division in German is Abteilung {f}, Division
division in Italian is compartimento, divisione
division in Latin is discidium
division in Norwegian is deling, divisjon
division in Swedish is division, indelning, indelning, delat med

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