Division
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Division or divider may refer to:
Mathematics
- Division (mathematics), the inverse of multiplication
- Division algorithm, a method for computing the result of mathematical division
Science
- Cell division, the process in which biological cells multiply
- Division (horticulture), a method of vegetative plant propagation, or the plants created by using this method
- Continental divide, the geographical term for separation between watersheds
- Division, a biological classification for plants or fungi, equivalent to phylum
Society
- Administrative division, also known as a country subdivision
- Census division, an official term in Canada and the United States
- Diairesis, Plato's method of definition by division
- Division (business), of a business entity is a distinct part of that business but the primary business is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the division
- Division (country subdivision), a name for a subsidiary state or prefecture of a country
- Division (sport), a group of teams in organised sport who compete for a divisional title
- Division (military), a formation typically consisting of 10,000 to 20,000 troops
- In parliamentary procedure:
- Division of the assembly, a type of formally recorded vote by assembly members
- Division of a question, to split a question into two or more questions
- Partition (politics), the process of changing national borders or separating political entities
- Police division, a large territorial unit of the British police
Places
- Division (CTA North Side Main Line station), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's North Side Main Line, which is now part of the Brown Line
- Division (CTA station), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line
- Division Mountain
- Division Range
Other uses
- Beam compass or dividers
- Divider caliper, a measuring tool
- Divider, a central reservation in Bangladesh
- Divisions of the field, a concept in heraldry
- Division (naval), a collection of naval units
- Division (logical fallacy), when one reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or some of its parts
- Divider in Schenkerian music analysis, see entry on Glossary of Schenkerian analysis#D
See also
- All pages beginning with "Division"
- All pages with titles containing Division
- Dividend, payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members
- Segmentation (disambiguation)
- Subdivision (disambiguation)
- Divide (disambiguation)
- Section (disambiguation)
- Partition (disambiguation)
- Split (disambiguation)
- Div (disambiguation)
- Compartment (disambiguation)
- Segment (disambiguation)
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