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the act or process of dividing (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum an administrative unit in government or business a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings a group of ships of similar type an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve" discord that splits a group an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC''s engineering division" |
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