Department vs. Division
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
Departmentnoun
A subdivision of an organization.
Departmentnoun
One of the principal divisions of executive government
Departmentnoun
One of the divisions of instructions
Departmentnoun
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
Departmentnoun
(historical) A military subdivision of a country
Departmentnoun
(obsolete) Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
Act of departing; departure.
Departmentnoun
A part, portion, or subdivision.
Departmentnoun
A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province.
Departmentnoun
Subdivision of business or official duty; especially, one of the principal divisions of executive government; as, the treasury department; the war department; also, in a university, one of the divisions of instruction; as, the medical department; the department of physics.
Departmentnoun
A territorial division; a district; esp., in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements into which the country is divided for governmental purposes; as, the Department of the Loire.
Departmentnoun
A military subdivision of a country; as, the Department of the Potomac.
Departmentnoun
a specialized division of a large organization;
Departmentnoun
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
Departmentnoun
a specialized sphere of knowledge;
Departmentnoun
a division of a large organization such as a government, university, or business, dealing with a specific area of activity
Departmentnoun
an administrative district in France and other countries
Departmentnoun
an area of special expertise or responsibility
Departmentnoun
a specified aspect or quality
Divisionnoun
(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Divisionnoun
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
Divisionnoun
The process of dividing a number by another.
Divisionnoun
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
Divisionnoun
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
Divisionnoun
A section of a large company.
Divisionnoun
(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.
Divisionnoun
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
Divisionnoun
(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
Divisionnoun
(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.
Divisionnoun
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
Divisionnoun
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Divisionnoun
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
Divisionnoun
A lesson; a class.
Divisionnoun
The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
Divisionnoun
That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
Divisionnoun
The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
Divisionnoun
Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
Divisionnoun
Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
Divisionnoun
Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
Divisionnoun
The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
Divisionnoun
The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
Divisionnoun
Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.
Divisionnoun
One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
Divisionnoun
A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
Divisionnoun
The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
Divisionnoun
A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
Divisionnoun
an army unit large enough to sustain combat;
Divisionnoun
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;
Divisionnoun
the act or process of dividing
Divisionnoun
an administrative unit in government or business
Divisionnoun
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
Divisionnoun
discord that splits a group
Divisionnoun
a league ranked by quality;
Divisionnoun
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
Divisionnoun
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
Divisionnoun
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
Divisionnoun
a group of ships of similar type
Divisionnoun
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
Divisionnoun
the action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated
Divisionnoun
the distribution of something separated into parts
Divisionnoun
an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote
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the action of splitting the roots of a perennial plant into parts to be replanted separately, as a means of propagation
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the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses.
Divisionnoun
difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension
Divisionnoun
the process of dividing one number by another
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the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient.
Divisionnoun
each of the parts into which something is divided
Divisionnoun
a major section of an organization, with responsibility for a particular area of activity
Divisionnoun
a group of army brigades or regiments
Divisionnoun
a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability or weight
Divisionnoun
a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes
Divisionnoun
a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency
Divisionnoun
a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology.
Divisionnoun
any subsidiary category between major levels of classification.
Divisionnoun
a partition
