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- pronunciation:
- dih
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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noun |
| definition 1: |
a unit or group in government, business, the military, schools, sports, and other institutions.
The company has one division for sales and one for research.The Chicago Cubs are in the Central Division of the National Baseball League.- synonyms:
- branch
- similar words:
- arm, department, league, part, unit
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| definition 2: |
the process in mathematics that you use to find how many sets of one number are in another.
We used division to find out how many nickels are in seven dollars.- similar words:
- arithmetic
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| related words: |
branch, bureau, category, chapter, class, fracture, piece |
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| derivations: |
divisional (adj.), divisionally (adv.) |
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