• Finnish: kaari, pääjakso
• Urdu: (taqseem)
• West Frisian: klasse

• West Frisian: ôfstimming

• ttbc Breton: rannadur , -ioú p
• ttbc CJKV Characters: 段
• ttbc Estonian: jagamine (1)
• ttbc Spanish: división

Derived terms

• divisional

Related terms

• divide
• dividend
• divisive
• divisor

See also

• denominator
• fraction
• numerator
• quotient

Swedish

Noun

division

1. division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
2. division, league; a organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others

Division may refer to:

Processes:

• Division (fallacy), a fallacy of ambiguation in which one assumes that various parts have a property solely because the whole has that same property
• Division (mathematics), an arithmetic operation that serves as the inverse of multiplication
• Division (digital), digital implementation of mathematical division
• Division in relational algebra
• Division (vote), a manner by which the votes of legislators are recorded
• Diairesis, Plato's method of definition by division
• Division (horticulture), a method of vegetative plant propagation, or the plants created by using this method
• Cell division, the process in which biological cells multiply
• Division (politics), the process of changing national borders or separating political entities
• Continental divide, the geographical term for separation between watersheds
• North-South divide, the geopolitical term for the division between wealthy nations and poor nations
• Segmentation

Units/ Entities:

• Division (organisation), a subsidiary of a larger organisation
• Division (business), a separate named business operated as a part of an organization
• Division (military), a unit typically consisting of between 10,000 to 20,000 troops
• Division (naval), a unit typically consisting of two or four ships
• Police division, a large territorial unit (now often referred to as a Basic Command Unit) of the British police
• Division (sport), a group of comparable teams in organised sport who compete amongst themselves for a Divisional title
• Division (botany), a classification of plants or fungi (the botanical/mycological counterpart to zoology's phylum)
• Division (country subdivision), a name for a subsidiary state or prefecture of a country
• A county constituency or Parliamentary seat in the United Kingdom Parliament
• A subpart of a hundred (division), former administrative unit in England and Wales
• Census division

Music:

• "÷" (often named "Division") is a song from Aly & AJ's third album Insomniatic
• A grouping of pipe ranks in a pipe organ, often with its own case, windchest, and keyboard
• Division (music) a specific type of ornamentation, most common in 17th century English music
• Division viol, an English Renaissance instrument
• Joy Division, an English rock band
• Division (album), is the name of the 2008 album by 10 Years.

Miscellaneous:

• In nautical navigation the compass is called dividers

See also

• Subdivision
• Segmentation

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