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Department (noun)
A part, portion, or subdivision.
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Department (noun)
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
“Technical things are not his department; he’s a people person.”
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Department (noun)
A subdivision of an organization.
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Department (noun)
One of the principal divisions of executive government
“the Treasury Department; the Department of Agriculture; police department”
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Department (noun)
A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes. In France, a department is smaller than a region
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Department (noun)
A military subdivision of a country
“the Department of the Potomac”
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Department (noun)
Act of departing; departure.
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Division (noun)
The act or process of dividing anything.
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Division (noun)
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
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Division (noun)
The dividing a number by another.
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Division (noun)
A calculation that involves this process.
“I’ve got ten divisions to do for my homework.”
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Division (noun)
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
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Division (noun)
A section of a large company.
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Division (noun)
A plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
“Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.”
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Division (noun)
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
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Division (noun)
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.”
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Division (noun)
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.
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Division (noun)
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
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Division (noun)
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
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Division (noun)
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
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Division (noun)
A lesson; a class.
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Department (noun)
a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity
“the council’s finance department”
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Department (noun)
an administrative district in France and other countries
“the turnout was particularly low in rural departments”
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Department (noun)
an area of special expertise or responsibility
“that’s not my department”
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Department (noun)
a specified aspect or quality
“he was a bit lacking in the height department”
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Division (noun)
the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated
“a gene that helps regulate cell division”
“the division of the land into small fields”
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Division (noun)
the distribution of something separated into parts
“the division of his estates between the two branches of his family”
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Division (noun)
an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote
“the new clause was agreed without a division”
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Division (noun)
the action of splitting the roots of a perennial plant into parts to be replanted separately, as a means of propagation
“the plant can also be easily increased by division in autumn”
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Division (noun)
the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses.
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Division (noun)
difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension
“a growing sense of division between north and south”
“deep cultural divisions”
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Division (noun)
the process of dividing one number by another
“no multiplication or division is necessary”
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Division (noun)
the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient.
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Division (noun)
each of the parts into which something is divided
“the main divisions of the book”
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Division (noun)
a major section of an organization, with responsibility for a particular area of activity
“a retail division”
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Division (noun)
a group of army brigades or regiments
“an infantry division”
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Division (noun)
a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability or weight
“the club will finish second in Division One”
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Division (noun)
a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes
“a licensing division of a district”
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Division (noun)
a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency
“he was MP for the Lancaster division of North Lancashire”
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Division (noun)
a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology.
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Division (noun)
any subsidiary category between major levels of classification.
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Division (noun)
a partition
“the villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours”