division

noun

• The act or process of dividing anything.
• Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
• The process of dividing a number by another.
• A calculation that involves this process.

  "I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."

• A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
• A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
• A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

  "Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta."

• A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
• A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

  "The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords."

• A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.
• A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
• A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
• Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
• (Eton College) A lesson; a class.