division Definition

1. The act of dividing; the state of being divided.

Thesaurus: separation, detachment, severance, disagreement, discord, schism, cutting, disconnection, partitioning, apportionment, distribution; Antonym: union, joining.
2. Something that divides or separates; a gap or barrier.
3. One of the parts into which something is divided.
4. A major unit of an organization such as an army or police force.
5. math.
The process of determining how many times one number, the divisor, is contained in another, the dividend.
6. A formal vote in Parliament.
7. bot.
In taxonomy: any of the major groups, eg Bryophyta (the mosses and liverworts), into which the plant kingdom (sense 2) is divided and which in turn is subdivided into one or more classes (sense 9). It corresponds to the phylum in the animal kingdom.