| 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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae, some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta |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 |
| staff | a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose, he walked with the help of a wooden staff |
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 |
staff
stave | (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written |
| staff line | any of the horizontal marks comprising a staff |
treble clef
treble staff
G clef | a clef that puts the G above middle C on the second line of a staff |
division
variance | discord that splits a group |
| staff | a rod carried as a symbol |
bread
breadstuff staff of life | food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked |
advertising department
advertising division | the division of a business that is responsible for advertising |
personnel department
personnel office
personnel staff office | the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management |
sales department
sales division
sales force | the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services |
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Joint Chiefs | the executive agency that advises the President on military questions, composed of the chiefs of the United States Army and the United States Navy and the United States Air Force and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
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 |
staff
faculty | the body of teachers and administrators at a school, the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university |
office
office staff | professional or clerical workers in an office, the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard |
| research staff | a group of associated research workers in a university or library or laboratory |
| sales staff | those in a business who are responsible for sales |
| security staff | those in an organization responsible for preventing spying or theft |
service staff
maintenance staff | those in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant |
| general staff | military officers assigned to assist a senior officer in planning military policy |
| headquarters staff | military staff stationed at headquarters |
| staff | personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task, the hospital has an excellent nursing staff, the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions |