division
     n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry
          divisions were held in reserve"
     2: one of the portions into which something is regarded as
        divided and which together constitute a whole; "the
        written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the
        company"; "the BBC's engineering division" [syn: {part}, {section}]
     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 [syn: {variance}]
     7: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D
        for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
        [syn: {class}]
     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 [syn: {air division}]
     11: a group of ships of similar type [syn: {naval division}]
     12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the
         creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn:
         {partition}, {partitioning}, {segmentation}, {sectionalization},
          {sectionalisation}]
Source: WordNet® 2.0