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Antonyms for division
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dih-vizh-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈvɪʒ ən |
Definition of division
Origin :- late 14c., from Old French division, from Latin divisionem (nominative divisio), from divid-, stem of dividere (see divide). Military sense is first recorded 1590s. Mathematical sense is from early 15c. The mathematical division sign supposedly was invented by British mathematician John Pell (1611-1685) who taught at Cambridge and Amsterdam.
- noun separation, disconnection
- noun something produced from separating
- noun breach, estrangement
- Division on public questions can no longer be traced by the war maps of 1861.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- It is wrong to waste the precious gift of time, on acrimony and division.
- Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
- If you can get off for an hour, won't you take the trolley to the end of Division Street?
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Sayac means a station or division, Anta is a small town near Cuzco.
- Extract from : « Apu Ollantay » by Anonymous
- But when the division of all this wealth came to be made, lo!
- Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle
- Dick felt that their own division under McClernand was also making progress.
- Extract from : « The Rock of Chickamauga » by Joseph A. Altsheler
- Enter the first division, and a legend at your feet indicated the ten-cent territory.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- The wisdom of Solomon would be necessary to settle the just division of the children.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- In the southern district this division is tacitly agreed upon.
- Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
- On the 30th of January, at daybreak, the 1st Division again advanced.
- Extract from : « The History of the First West India Regiment » by A. B. Ellis
Synonyms for division
- affiliate
- analysis
- apportionment
- associate
- autopsy
- bisection
- border
- boundary
- branch
- breaking
- breaking down
- breaking up
- carving
- category
- chunk
- class
- compartment
- conflict
- contrasting
- cut
- cutting up
- degree
- demarcation
- department
- departmentalizing
- detaching
- detachment
- diagnosis
- difference of opinion
- difficulty
- disaccord
- disagreement
- discord
- disharmony
- disjuncture
- dismemberment
- disparting
- dispute
- dissension
- dissent
- disseverance
- dissidence
- dissolution
- dissonance
- distinguishing
- distribution
- disunion
- disuniting
- divide
- dividend
- divider
- dividing
- dividing line
- divorce
- divvy
- end
- feud
- fraction
- fragment
- grouping
- head
- kind
- lobe
- lump
- member
- moiety
- offshoot
- parcel
- parceling
- parting
- partition
- piece
- piece of action
- portion
- rake-off
- ramification
- reduction
- rending
- rupture
- section
- sector
- segment
- segmentation
- selection
- separating
- severance
- share
- slice
- sort
- split
- splitting up
- subdivision
- trouble
- variance
- vivisection
- wedge
- words
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