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1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
5. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. (botany, mycology) 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.
8. (zoology) An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank.
9. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
10. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
11. (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.
12. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
13. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
14. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
15. (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
16. (Australia) A parliamentary constituency.