Usually means: Separating something into smaller parts.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word division:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. division: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. division: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. division: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. division: Collins English Dictionary
  5. division: Vocabulary.com
  6. Division, Division, division: Wordnik
  7. division: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. division: Wiktionary
  9. division: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. division: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. division: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. division: Dictionary.com
  13. division: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. division: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Division (Military), Division (The Gazette album), Division (army), Division (biology), Division (botany), Division (business), Division (country subdivision), Division (digital), Division (disambiguation), Division (horticulture), Division (math), Division (mathematics), Division (military), Division (military unit), Division (music), Division (mycology), Division (naval), Division (organisation), Division (organization), Division (sport), Division (sports), Division (subnational entity), Division (taxonomy), Division (vote), Division, The Division (Game), The Division (film), The Division (video game), The Division: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Division: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. division: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. division: Rhymezone
  19. Division (f), division, division, division (f), divisin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. division: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Division: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. division: Free Dictionary
  23. division: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. division: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. division: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Division (disambiguation), Division (mathematics), division: Legal dictionary
  3. division: Financial dictionary
  4. Division: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Division (disambiguation), division: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Division (disambiguation), division: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Division: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)
  4. division: MATH SPOKEN HERE!
  5. division: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Division: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Division: Backgammon
  2. Cat Terms (No longer online)
  3. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Sports Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See divisional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
noun:  Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
noun:  (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
noun:  (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
noun:  (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
noun:  A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
noun:  (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.
noun:  A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
noun:  (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
noun:  (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
noun:  (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
noun:  (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
noun:  (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

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