1. (

• division

) an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve" ;

2. (

• 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" ;

3. (

• division

) the act or process of dividing ;

4. (

• division ,

) an administrative unit in government or business ;

5. (

• division ,
• variance

) discord that splits a group ;

6. (

• class ,
• division ,

) a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" ;

7. (

• division ,

) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category ;

8. (

• division ,

) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum ;

9. (

• division ,
• air_division

) a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings ;

10. (

• division ,
• naval_division

) a group of ships of similar type ;

11. (

• division ,

) an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed ;

12. (

• division ,
• partition ,
• partitioning ,
• segmentation ,
• sectionalization ,
• sectionalisation

) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart ;