Antonym: multiplication. Similar words: envision, provision, decision, divine, divide, visitor, visible, activist. Meaning: [dɪ'vɪʒn] 
n. 1. an army unit large enough to sustain combat 2. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole 3. the act or process of dividing 4. an administrative unit in government or business 5. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed 6. discord that splits a group 7. a league ranked by quality 8. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category 9. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum 10. a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings 11. a group of ships of similar type 12. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.
n. 1. an army unit large enough to sustain combat 2. one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole 3. the act or process of dividing 4. an administrative unit in government or business 5. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed 6. discord that splits a group 7. a league ranked by quality 8. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category 9. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum 10. a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings 11. a group of ships of similar type 12. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart. 
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(211) Lee commanded the 101st Airborne division in World War II.
(212) The software division expects to achieve its sales targets this year.
(213) The separation of children at eleven was a classification system that perpetuated social class division; it was also an educational typology.
(214) The cautious effort to reopen the debate was sparked by a controversial report from the United Nations Population Division this year.
(215) Zoologists today might not agree that the division is quite so sharply defined as Wallace suggested.
(216) Within the Microsoft division that creates operating systems,(sentencedict.com/division.html) revenues increased by 72 percent.
(217) The advertising division was created in 1971 by national advertisers, advertising agencies and their trade groups, all interested in self-regulation.
(218) Each division of the school receives its own results, which allow it to pinpoint problems and take appropriate action.
(219) For the first half of the meeting the division was split into two large committees to work through the agreed agenda.
(220) The December through February sessions had gone so well that committee members believed they should conduct similar training throughout the division.
(221) But there has been a good deal less successful cross-border brand-building in the confectionery division.
(222) Within large-scale industry[sentencedict.com], the crippling specialisation of the individual machine-minders is one aspect of the division of labour.
(223) Where there is a high degree of skill division then more formalized and externalized co-ordination and control will be required.
(224) What has then happened is a class division, of a stable and organized kind, within cultural production.
(225) In pre-industrial societies philosophers generally asserted that a clear division of labour in political affairs was unavoidable and beneficial.
(226) Pool, so often the butt of soccer jokes, on the threshold of the First Division?
(227) Pilgrim plays in Division V-designated for schools with enrollments of 300 students or less.
(228) The Division has a particularly important task in promoting training courses for industry and commerce.
(229) In the absence of any clear division between administrative and judicial functions, even the humblest official enjoyed arbitrary power.
(230) En route to Palau, Carrier Division 5 broke away from the main body and headed for the homeland.
(231) They are the first to divide in cell division and form the poles at each end of the cell.
(232) The two groups announced last August they had come up with dense wavelength division multiplexing prototype chips.
(233) Either the Government performs a climbdown of epic humiliation scale or it publishes and risks being damned in the division lobbies.
(234) Here then was a further division among male compositors, well established before 1872.
(235) The purpose of the subsection is to ensure that there is local representation on the licensing board for a division.
(236) Nine multi-divisional companies are studied in depth with interviews conducted at corporate, division and operating unit level.
(237) However, for the moment we will accept the division of lexical items into open and closed classes.
(238) Materials Technology Division showed significant advances over last year which are particularly gratifying given the management attention focused on this business.
(239) The badge of the Airborne Division had been enlarged in colour and framed as a centrepiece.
(240) If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.
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