Devision vs. Division

Devision vs. Division — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Devision and Division

Devisionnoun

obsolete spelling of division

Divisionnoun

The act or process of dividing.

Divisionnoun

The state of having been divided.

Divisionnoun

(Mathematics) The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.

Divisionnoun

The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity

the division of his property among his heirs.

Divisionnoun

Something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.

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Divisionnoun

One of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.

Divisionnoun

An area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.

Divisionnoun

A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.

Divisionnoun

An administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.

Divisionnoun

A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the US Navy.

Divisionnoun

A former unit of the US Air Force that was larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.

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Divisionnoun

(Botany) The taxonomic category ranking just below kingdom, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification.

Divisionnoun

A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.

Divisionnoun

Variance of opinion; disagreement.

Divisionnoun

A splitting into factions; disunion.

Divisionnoun

The physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.

Divisionnoun

(Biology) Cell division.

Divisionnoun

A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

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.

I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.

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.

Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.

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.

The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.

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

an army unit large enough to sustain combat;

two infantry divisions were held in reserve

Divisionnoun

one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

the written part of the examthe finance section of the companythe BBC's engineering division

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;

he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA

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