division

noun16

1. •
   the breaking up of something whole into a number of smaller pieces
2. •
   The process of dividing a number by another.
3. •
   A calculation that involves this process.

   • I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
4. •
   Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
5. •
   Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
6. •
   A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
7. •
   A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
8. •
   A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. •
   A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

   • The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.
10. •
    A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

    • Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
11. •
    An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
12. •
    (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.
13. •
    (UK) A lesson; a class.
14. •
    A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
15. •
    A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
16. •
    A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.