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Noun
division (countable and uncountable , plural divisions )
( uncountable ) The act or process of dividing anything.
Synonyms: split , lith
Antonyms: combination , fusion , merger , unification
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
( arithmetic , uncountable ) The process of dividing a number by another.
Antonym: multiplication
( arithmetic ) A calculation that involves this process.
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
( military ) A formation , usually made up of two or three brigades .
Hyponyms: square division , triangular division
A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate .
( taxonomy ) 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.
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
( government ) 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.
( music ) 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.
( music ) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
( law ) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
( computing ) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
Hyponyms: identification division , environment division , data division , procedure division
( UK , Eton College) A lesson ; a class .
Synonym: ( informal ) div
( Australia ) A parliamentary constituency .
Translations
act or process of dividing anything
Afrikaans: verdeling , divisie (af)
Albanian: ndarje (sq)
Arabic: تَقْسِيم m ( taqsīm )
Hijazi Arabic: تَقْسِيم m ( tagsīm )
Armenian: բաժանում (hy) ( bažanum )
Aromanian: mpãrtãciuni f
Bashkir: бүлеү ( bülew )
Bengali: বিভাজন (bn) ( bibhajon ) , তকসিম (bn) ( tokśim )
Bulgarian: деле́не (bg) n ( deléne ) , разде́ляне (bg) n ( razdéljane )
Catalan: divisió (ca) f
Czech: dělení (cs) n
Danish: deling (da) c
Dutch: deling (nl) f , verdeling (nl) f , scheiding (nl) f
Esperanto: divido , dividado
Finnish: jakaminen (fi) , jako (fi)
French: division (fr) f
Galician: división f
German: Teilung (de) f
Greek: διαίρεση (el) f ( diaíresi )
Ancient: διαίρεσις f ( diaíresis ) , στάσις ( stásis )
Hebrew: חלוקה / חֲלֻקָּה f ( khaluká )
Hindi: विभाजन (hi) m ( vibhājan ) , बँटवारा (hi) m ( bãṭvārā ) , बांटना ( bāṇṭnā )
Icelandic: skipting f , niðurskipting f , deiling (is) f
Indonesian: divisi (id)
Irish: deighilt f
Italian: divisione (it) f
Japanese: 分割 (ja) ( ぶんかつ, bunkatsu )
Korean: 분할(分割) (ko) ( bunhal )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دابەش ( dabeş )
Northern Kurdish: dabeşbûn (ku)
Kyrgyz: бөлүш (ky) ( bölüş )
Latin: dīvīsiō f
Macedonian: делење n ( delenje ) , поделба f ( podelba )
Malay: divisi , pembahagian (ms)
Maltese: diviżjoni f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: divisjon (no) m , inndeling (no) m or f
Nynorsk: divisjon m , inndeling f
Old English: tōtwǣmednes f , ġedāl n
Persian: تَقْسیم (fa) ( taqsim )
Polish: podział (pl) m
Portuguese: divisão (pt) f
Romanian: divizare (ro) f , împărțire (ro) f
Russian: разде́л (ru) m ( razdél ) , деле́ние (ru) n ( delénije )
Scots: diveesion
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: podjela (sh) f , dijeljenje (sh) n
Slovene: deljenje n
Spanish: división (es) f
Swahili: ugavi (sw) , farakano (sw)
Swedish: division (sv) c
Telugu: విభజన (te) ( vibhajana )
Turkish: bölme (tr) , bölüm (tr)
Ukrainian: ро́зділ ( rózdil ) , по́діл ( pódil ) , ді́лення ( dílennja ) , розді́лення n ( rozdílennja )
Urdu: تَقْسیم f ( taqsīm )
West Frisian: yndieling c
each of the parts resulting from division
arithmetic: process of dividing a number by another
Afrikaans: deel (af)
Arabic: قِسْمَة f ( qisma )
Hijazi Arabic: قِسْمَة f ( gisma ) , تَقْسِيم m ( tagsīm )
Armenian: բաժանում (hy) ( bažanum )
Azerbaijani: bölmə (az)
Bashkir: бүлеү ( bülew )
Belarusian: дзяле́нне n ( dzjaljénnje )
Bengali: ভাগ (bn) ( bhag )
Bulgarian: деле́ние (bg) n ( delénie )
Catalan: divisió (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 除法 (zh) ( chúfǎ )
Czech: dělení (cs) n
Danish: division (da) c
Dutch: deling (nl) f , delen (nl) n
Esperanto: divido
Estonian: jagamine
Finnish: jako (fi) , jakaminen (fi)
French: division (fr) f
Georgian: გაყოფა ( gaq̇opa )
German: Division (de) f
Greek: διαίρεση (el) f ( diaíresi )
Ancient: διαίρεσις f ( diaíresis )
Hebrew: חִלּוּק \ חילוק (he) m ( khilúk )
Hindi: विभाजन (hi) m ( vibhājan ) , भाग (hi) m ( bhāg )
Hungarian: osztás (hu)
Icelandic: deiling (is) f
Italian: divisione (it) f
Japanese: 割り算 (ja) ( わりざん, warizan ) , 除算 (ja) ( じょざん, jozan )
Kazakh: бөлу ( bölu )
Khmer: វិធីចែក (km) ( vithii caek )
Korean: 나눗셈 (ko) ( nanutsem ) , 나누기 (ko) ( nanugi ) , 제산(除算) ( jesan )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: دابەش ( dabeş )
Kyrgyz: бөлүү (ky) ( bölüü )
Latvian: dalīšana f
Lithuanian: dalyba f
Macedonian: делење n ( delenje )
Maltese: diviżjoni f
Maori: whakawehenga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хуваах үйлдэл ( xuvaax üjldel )
Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠶᠠᠬᠤ ᠦᠶᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠯ ( qubiyaqu üyiledül )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: divisjon (no) m
Nynorsk: divisjon m
Persian: تَقْسیم (fa) ( taqsim )
Polish: dzielenie (pl) n
Portuguese: divisão (pt) f
Quechua: t'ipi
Romanian: împărțire (ro) f
Russian: деле́ние (ru) n ( delénije )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дељење n
Roman: dijéljēnje (sh) n
Slovak: delenie n
Slovene: deljenje n
Spanish: división (es) f
Swedish: division (sv) c
Tagalog: palahatian
Tajik: тақсим (tg) ( taqsim )
Tamil: வகுத்தல் (ta) ( vakuttal )
Telugu: భాగహారము (te) ( bhāgahāramu )
Thai: การหาร (th)
Turkish: bölme (tr)
Ukrainian: ді́лення n ( dílennja )
Urdu: تَقْسیم f ( taqsīm )
Uzbek: boʻlish (uz) , boʻlinish (uz)
Vietnamese: phép chia (vi)
West Frisian: dieling c
arithmetic: calculation involving this process
large military unit
Afrikaans: afdeling (af) , skeiding (af)
Albanian: divizion (sq) m
Arabic: فِرْقَة f ( firqa )
Hijazi Arabic: فِرقة f ( firga )
Armenian: դիվիզիա (hy) ( divizia )
Azerbaijani: diviziya , tümən
Bashkir: дивизия ( diviziya )
Belarusian: дыві́зія f ( dyvízija )
Bulgarian: диви́зия f ( divízija )
Catalan: divisió (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 師團 / 师团 ( si1 tyun4 ) , 師 / 师 ( si1 )
Dungan: дивизия ( divizii͡a )
Mandarin: 師團 / 师团 (zh) ( shītuán ) , 師 / 师 (zh) ( shī )
Czech: divize (cs) f
Danish: division (da) c
Dutch: divisie (nl) f
Esperanto: divizio
Estonian: diviis
Finnish: divisioona (fi)
French: division (fr) f
Georgian: დანაყოფი ( danaq̇opi ) , დივიზია ( divizia )
German: Abteilung (de) f , Division (de) f
Greek: μεραρχία (el) f ( merarchía )
Ancient: τάγμα n ( tágma ) , ἄγημα n ( ágēma )
Hebrew: אֻגְדָּה \ אוגדה f ( ugdá ) , דיוויזיה f ( divízya )
Hindi: टुकड़ी ( ṭukṛī )
Hungarian: hadosztály (hu)
Icelandic: herdeild (is) f , deild (is) f
Indonesian: divisi (id)
Italian: divisione (it) f
Japanese: 師団 (ja) ( しだん, shidan )
Kazakh: дивизия ( diviziä )
Khmer: កងពលធំ ( kɑɑng pŭəl thom )
Korean: 사단(師團) (ko) ( sadan )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: فرقە ( firqe )
Kyrgyz: дивизия (ky) ( diviziya )
Lao: ກອງພົນ ( kǭng phon )
Latvian: divīzija f
Lithuanian: divizija f
Macedonian: дивизија f ( divizija )
Malay: divisyen
Maori: whare (mi) , mātua
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: дивиз (mn) ( diviz )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: divisjon (no) m
Nynorsk: divisjon m
Ottoman Turkish: فرقه ( fırka )
Persian: لَشْکَر (fa) ( laškar ) , فِرْقِه (fa) ( firqe )
Polish: dywizja (pl) f
Portuguese: divisão (pt) f
Romanian: divizie (ro) f
Cyrillic: дивизие f ( divizie )
Russian: диви́зия (ru) f ( divízija ) ( in the army ) , дивизио́н (ru) m ( divizión ) ( in the navy )
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: dìvīzija (sh) f ( army ) , divizijun m ( navy )
Roman: дѝвӣзија f ( army )
Slovak: divízia f
Slovene: divizija (sl) f
Spanish: división (es) f
Swedish: division (sv) c
Tagalog: dibisyon
Tajik: лашкар ( laškar ) , дивизия ( diviziya ) , фирқа ( firqa )
Tatar: төмән ( tömän ) , дивизия ( diwiziyä )
Telugu: విభాగము (te) sg ( vibhāgamu )
Thai: กองพล (th) ( gɔɔng-pon )
Turkish: tümen (tr) , fırka (tr)
Turkmen: diwiziýa
Ukrainian: диві́зія f ( dyvízija )
Uyghur: دىۋىزىيە ( diwiziye ) , شىتۇەن ( shituen )
Uzbek: diviziya (uz)
Vietnamese: sư đoàn (vi) , sư (vi)
West Frisian: divyzje c
Yiddish: דיוויזיע f ( divizye )
section of a large company
Afrikaans: afdeling (af)
Armenian: բաժին (hy) ( bažin )
Bengali: বিভাগ (bn) ( bibhag )
Bulgarian: подразделе́ние (bg) n ( podrazdelénie )
Catalan: divisió (ca) f
Czech: divize (cs) f
Danish: division (da) c , afdeling (da) c
Dutch: afdeling (nl) f , divisie (nl) f , eenheid (nl) f
Finnish: osasto (fi)
French: division (fr) f
Greek: διεύθυνση (el) f ( diéfthynsi )
Hindi: विभाग (hi) m ( vibhāg )
Icelandic: deild (is) f
Indonesian: divisi (id)
Italian: divisione (it) f
Japanese: 部 (ja) ( ぶ, bu )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەش (ckb) ( beş )
Luxembourgish: Andeelung f
Macedonian: оддел m ( oddel ) , одделение n ( oddelenie )
Malay: divisyen
Norwegian:
Bokmål: divisjon (no) m
Nynorsk: divisjon m
Portuguese: divisão (pt) f
Romanian: divizie (ro) f
Russian: отде́л (ru) m ( otdél ) , отделе́ние (ru) n ( otdelénije ) , се́кция (ru) f ( sékcija ) , подразделе́ние (ru) n ( podrazdelénije )
Swedish: division (sv) c
Telugu: విభాగము (te) ( vibhāgamu )
Ukrainian: ві́дділ m ( víddil ) , відді́лення n ( viddílennja ) , підро́зділ (uk) m ( pidrózdil )
Welsh: adran (cy) f
West Frisian: divyzje c
biology: taxonomic classification of plants
disagreement; a difference of viewpoint
law: concept of separate responsibility
Dutch: ( van prestasie ) deelbaarheid f
Finnish: jako (fi)
Indonesian: pemekaran (id)
Translations to be checked
Breton: (please verify ) rannadur m , (please verify ) -ioú pl
Estonian: ( 1 ) (please verify ) jagamine
Noun
division c (singular definite divisionen , plural indefinite divisioner )
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division c
division ; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
( sports ) division, league ; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others
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