Definition of division

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Division (n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

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Neurotomy :: Neurotomy (n.) The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or for other purposes..
Metapode :: Metapode (n.) The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Teleostomi :: Teleostomi (n. pl.) An extensive division of fishes including the ordinary fishes (Teleostei) and the ganoids.
Chronometry :: Chronometry (n.) The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..
Court :: Court (n.) A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court..
Ward :: Ward (n.) A division of a hospital; as, a fever ward..
Divide :: Divide (v. t.) To mark divisions on; to graduate; as, to divide a sextant..
Terricolae :: Terricolae (n. pl.) A division of annelids including the common earthworms and allied species.
Schoharie Grit :: Schoharie grit () The formation belonging to the middle of the three subdivisions of the Corniferous period in the American Devonian system; -- so called from Schoharie, in New York, where it occurs. See the Chart of Geology..
Canticle :: Canticle (n.) A canto or division of a poe.
Rank :: Rank (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify..
Prophragma :: Prophragma (n.) An internal dorsal chitinous process between the first two divisions of the thorax of insects.
Ordovician :: Ordovician (a.) Of or pertaining to a division of the Silurian formation, corresponding in general to the Lower Silurian of most authors, exclusive of the Cambrian..
Commander :: Commander (n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it..
Branch :: Branch (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway..
Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.
Division :: Division (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
Stall :: Stall (v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal..
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