| division | the act or process of dividing |
word division
hyphenation | division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page |
division partition
partitioning
segmentation
sectionalization
sectionalisation | the act of dividing or partitioning, separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
| division | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication, the quotient of two numbers is computed |
| long division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
| division Archaebacteria | in some classifications considered a kingdom |
| division Eubacteria | oneelled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella |
Cyanophyta
division Cyanophyta | prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom, coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) |
Schizophyta
division Schizophyta | former term for the Cyanophyta |
Protista
division Protista | eukaryotic oneelled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae |
Heterokontophyta
division Heterokontophyta | algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths, terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications |
Chrysophyta
division Chrysophyta | mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment, yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |
Phaeophyta
division Phaeophyta | coextensive with class Phaeophyceae, in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta |
Euglenophyta
division Euglenophyta | free-swimming flagellate algae |
Chlorophyta
division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls, classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae, obviously ancestral to land plants |
Rhodophyta
division Rhodophyta | lower plants, mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae |
Cynodontia
division Cynodontia | a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth |
Dicynodontia
division Dicynodontia | a division of Therapsida |
crosslassification
cross-division | classification according to more than one attribute at the same time, the crosslassification of cases was done by age and sex |
part
section
division | 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 |
division
variance | discord that splits a group |
advertising department
advertising division | the division of a business that is responsible for advertising |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
NAWCWPNS | the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems |
| division | an army unit large enough to sustain combat, two infantry divisions were held in reserve |
| division naval division | a group of ships of similar type |
| division air division | a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings |
| division | an administrative unit in government or business |
| division | (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum |
| division | (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category |
| form division | an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure |
| class division | a league ranked by quality, he played baseball in class D for two years, Princeton is in the NCAA Division -AA |
administrative district
administrative division
territorial division | a district defined for administrative purposes |
benthos
benthic division
benthonic zone | a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones |
Tracheophyta
division Tracheophyta | in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants |
Bryophyta
division Bryophyta | a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms, comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida) |
Pteridophyta
division Pteridophyta | containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns, in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta |
Spermatophyta
division Spermatophyta | seed plants, comprises the Angiospermae (or Magnoliophyta) and Gymnospermae (or Gymnospermophyta), in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots) |
Gymnospermae
class Gymnospermae
Gymnospermophyta
division Gymnospermophyta | plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary, in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta), comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida), in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida) |
Angiospermae
class Angiospermae
Magnoliophyta
division Magnoliophyta
Anthophyta
division Anthophyta | comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary, in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta) |
Myxomycota
division Myxomycota
Gymnomycota
division Gymnomycota | slime molds, organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes, in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista |
Lichenes
division Lichenes | comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae, sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi |
Eumycota
division Eumycota | true fungi, eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms, distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina, Zygomycotina, Ascomycotina, Basidiomycotina, Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi) |
cell division
cellular division | the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells |
meiosis
miosis
reduction division | (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms, the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants) |
| phase of cell division | a stage in meiosis or mitosis |