Definition of division

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Division (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

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Misdivision :: Misdivision (n.) Wrong division.
Multifoil :: Multifoil (a.) Having more than five divisions or foils.
Sunder :: Sunder (v. t.) A separation into parts; a division or severance.
Department :: Department (v. i.) A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac..
Lobe :: Lobe (n.) Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
Plurilocular :: Plurilocular (a.) having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits..
Shire :: Shire (n.) A portion of Great Britain originally under the supervision of an earl; a territorial division, usually identical with a county, but sometimes limited to a smaller district; as, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, Richmondshire, Hallamshire..
Testicardines :: Testicardines (n. pl.) A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A division; a breach, as in a party..
Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris..
Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods..
Lute :: Lute (n.) A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs or sides, arranged like the divisions of a melon, the neck, which has nine or ten frets or divisions, and the head, or cross, in which the screws for tuning are inserted. The strings are struck with the right hand, and with the left the stops are pressed..
Jugular :: "Jugular (a.) Any fish which has the ventral fins situated forward of the pectoral fins, or beneath the throat; one of a division of fishes (Jugulares)..
Articulata :: Articulata (v.) One of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge..
Minor :: Minor (a.) Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body..
Lip :: Lip (n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.
Catskill Period :: Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology..
Chromosome :: Chromosome (n.) One of the minute bodies into which the chromatin of the nucleus is resolved during mitotic cell division; the idant of Weismann.
Pygobranchia :: Pygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks having the branchiae in a wreath or group around the anal opening, as in the genus Doris..
Odonata :: Odonata (n. pl.) The division of insects that includes the dragon flies.
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