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| Sounds | dihvih'zhahn |
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| Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | An army unit large enough to sustain combat. |
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| Examples | "two infantry divisions were held in reserve" |
| Member of | corps |
| Members | battle group |
| Narrower | Special Forces, U. S. Army Special Forces, United States Army Special Forces |
| Broader | army unit |
| Adjectives | divisional |
| Meaning | One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole. |
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| Examples | "the BBC's engineering division" |
| Synonyms | part, section |
| Part of | whole |
| Narrower | beginning; middle; end; high point; component, constituent, element, factor, ingredient |
| Broader | concept, conception, construct |
| Meaning | The act or process of dividing. |
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| Narrower | parcellation; cleavage; bisection; quartering; schism, split; cut, cutting; atomization, atomisation, fragmentation; branching, ramification, fork, forking; dichotomization, dichotomisation; quantization, quantisation; fractionation; syllabication, syllabification; word division, hyphenation; cut, cutting |
| Broader | separation |
| Verbs | divide |
| Meaning | An administrative unit in government or business. |
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| Member of | government, authorities, regime; business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation |
| Narrower | department, section; branch, subdivision, arm |
| Broader | administrative unit, administrative body |
| Meaning | An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication. The quotient of two numbers is computed. |
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| Narrower | long division; short division |
| Broader | arithmetic operation |
| Verbs | divide |
| Meaning | Discord that splits a group. |
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| Synonyms | variance |
| Broader | discord, dissension |
| Meaning | A league ranked by quality. |
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| Examples | "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" |
| Synonyms | class |
| Broader | league, conference |
| Meaning | (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. |
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| Category | biology, biological science |
| Narrower | division Archaebacteria; division Eubacteria; Cyanophyta, division Cyanophyta; Schizophyta, division Schizophyta; Heterokontophyta, division Heterokontophyta; Chrysophyta, division Chrysophyta; Phaeophyta, division Phaeophyta; Euglenophyta, division Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta, division Chlorophyta; Rhodophyta, division Rhodophyta; Cynodontia, division Cynodontia; Dicynodontia, division Dicynodontia; Pisces; form division |
| Broader | biological group |
| Meaning | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum. |
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| Category | botany, phytology |
| Narrower | Protista, division Protista; Thallophyta; Tracheophyta, division Tracheophyta; Bryophyta, division Bryophyta; Pteridophyta, division Pteridophyta; Spermatophyta, division Spermatophyta; Phanerogamae; Cryptogamia; Pteropsida, subdivision Pteropsida; Zygomycota, subdivision Zygomycota, Zygomycotina, subdivision Zygomycotina; Myxomycota, division Myxomycota, Gymnomycota, division Gymnomycota; Mastigomycota, subdivision Mastigomycota, Mastigomycotina, subdivision Mastigomycotina; Lichenes, division Lichenes; Eumycota, division Eumycota; Deuteromycota, subdivision Deuteromycota, Deuteromycotina, Fungi imperfecti, subdivision Deuteromycotina; Basidiomycota, subdivision Basidiomycota, Basidiomycotina, subdivision Basidiomycotina; Ascomycota, subdivision Ascomycota, Ascomycotina, subdivision Ascomycotina; Lycophyta |
| Broader | phylum |
| Meaning | A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings. |
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| Synonyms | air division |
| Parts | wing |
| Broader | air unit |
| Meaning | A group of ships of similar type. |
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| Synonyms | naval division |
| Broader | naval unit |
| Meaning | The act of dividing or partitioning. Separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. |
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| Synonyms | partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation |
| Narrower | subdivision; septation; zoning |
| Broader | separation |
| Verbs | divide |