division
noun
Simple meaning
The act or process of dividing.
Pronunciation
Say it like this:
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IPA pronunciation (US)
dɪˈvɪʒən
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Definition
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noun
The act or process of dividing
The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
arithmeticuncountable
The process of dividing a number by another.
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
Australia
A parliamentary constituency.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner (estimated)
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- General English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: The act or process of dividing
Used this way, division is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It usually sounds natural in a wide range of settings.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
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Close in meaning, but not always interchangeable.
The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
A part of something that has been divided.
The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
The act or result of dividing into partitions.
Word Family
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Word family
Words built from the same root.
Related to The act or process of dividing.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
In some classifications considered a kingdom.
A division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between…
Large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls.
Mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment.
Prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom.
A division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth.
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Synonyms
Sense: act or process of dividing
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