division
- noun
- /dɪˈvɪʒən/
- The committee discussed the division of resources to make sure every department received what it needed.
- division of labor
- multiplication and division
- cell division
Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of cell divisions per second in our bodies.
- Hundreds, hundreds of thousands of cell divisions per second in our bodies.
- And I learned how to do division in in one way.
- So today's theme is all about division of Labor.
- You get that first one is a division symbol, right?
- The subject object division is artificial.
- Scramjet are basically tubes with some divisions inside where fuel is injected into the air.
- This makes Z be a finite field because it allows division.
- it helps to multiply. I don't even think you need to worry about division that that's it. So,
Examples
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The team worked together to ensure a fair division of the project tasks among all members.
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With the division of labor so neatly divided and both of them willing to stay in their designated roles, I'm convinced...
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God looking on the light, saw that it was good and he made a division between the light and the dark.
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It's called the division of labor.
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No wonder they call it "long division."
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These divisions of time are purely arbitrary.
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So today's theme is all about division of Labor.
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It's been a challenge for us, but by trial and experience, I believe we have achieved a sensible division of labour and a good balance between our individual and joint interests.
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The map divides the world into habitable and uninhabitable parts, a division likely borrowed from Macrobius.
Academic text (1999) -
In mathematics class, we learned how to perform a division operation to find the quotient of two numbers.
Synonyms
Dividing something into separate parts, often with a border
The act of splitting something already split into smaller parts
The act of putting things into different groups
The action of one thing dividing into parts that spread out
A split into parts along natural lines, for example in rocks or cells
Dividing something into separate parts
Dividing something into parts or groups
Dividing something into separate parts to keep things organized
To divide something into separate parts that work on their own
The cutting or splitting of something into parts
To divide something into two equal parts
A process of dividing something into separate parts to make it easier to manage
The act of dividing something into parts or groups
A smaller group within a larger group that helps organize similar things
The breaking of a group or society into smaller, competing groups
The act of dividing something into two clearly different groups
A division of something into two separate parts
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A process in which a cell splits to make two or more new cells for growth and reproduction
A region like a state or district that a government uses to run local services
- Specialized
The part of a body of water that includes the sea floor and nearby shore areas
- Specialized
A group of mostly single-celled living things with cells that have a nucleus, like slime molds and some algae
- Archaic
A former group of plants like ferns that have tubes and make spores not seeds
- Specialized
A large group of red seaweeds that grow mainly in the sea near the shore
- Archaic
An old scientific name for blue-green algae now called cyanobacteria
- Archaic
A group of single-celled life forms different from bacteria and from animals and plants
- Specialized
A group of small plants that do not make flowers, like mosses, liverworts and hornworts
- Archaic
A group of mostly freshwater microscopic algae with yellow or brown color
- Archaic
A group of bacteria like blue-green algae that make food from sunlight and live in water and soil
- Archaic
A large group of single-celled living things that have rigid cell walls
- Specialized
A group of small, free-swimming algae that move with a tail and live in fresh water
- Specialized
A main group of fungi like mushrooms and molds that have cells with walls made of chitin
- Archaic
An old scientific group for organisms where a fungus lives with algae or blue-green bacteria
- Specialized
A group of brown seaweeds like kelp used in some biology classifications
- Jargon
A group in the United States Air Force that has two or more wings and controls them
A main United States Navy group that designs and tests aircraft and missiles
- Specialized
A type of cell division that makes four sex cells, each with half the chromosomes
- Specialized
Separating a word into parts when it breaks at the end of a line in writing
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Morphology
Etymology
Division comes from the verb divide, which means 'to separate' or 'share into parts'. So division can mean the act of separating things or the math operation of sharing numbers into equal parts.