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Division

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Division or divider may refer to:

Mathematics

  • Division (mathematics), the inverse of multiplication
  • Division algorithm, a method for computing the result of mathematical division

Military

  • Division (military), a formation typically consisting of 10,000 to 25,000 troops
  • Division (naval), a collection of warships

Science

Technology

  • Beam compass, a compass with a beam and sliding sockets for drawing and dividing circles larger than those made by a regular pair of compasses
  • Divider caliper or compass, a caliper
  • Frequency divider, a circuit that divides the frequency of a clock signal

Society

  • Administrative division, geopolitical territory within a Political division
  • Census division, an official term in Canada and the United States
  • Diairesis, Plato's method of definition by division
  • Division (business), of a business entity is a distinct part of that business but the primary business is legally responsible for all of the obligations and debts of the division
  • Division (political geography), a name for a subsidiary state or prefecture of a country
  • Division (sport), a group of teams in organised sport who compete for a divisional title
  • In parliamentary procedure:
    • Division of the assembly, a type of formally recorded vote by assembly members
    • Division of a question, to split a question into two or more questions
  • Partition (politics), the process of changing national borders or separating political entities
  • Police division, a large territorial unit of the British police
  • Political division, geopolitical territory within a country

Places

  • Division station (CTA North Side Main Line), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's North Side Main Line
  • Division station (CTA Blue Line), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, serving the Blue Line
  • Division Mountain, on the Continental Divide along the Alberta - British Columbia border of Canada
  • Division Range, Humboldt County, Nevada

Music

  • Division (10 Years album), 2008
  • Division (The Gazette album), 2012
  • Division (music), a type of ornamentation or variation found in early music
  • Divider, as in Schenkerian music analysis, a consonant subdivision of a consonant interval
  • "Division", a song by Aly & AJ from Insomniatic, 2007
  • Divisions, the third album by American rock band Starset, 2019

Other uses

  • Divider, a central reservation in Bangladesh
  • Division of the field, a concept in heraldry
  • Division (logical fallacy), when one reasons logically that something true of a thing must also be true of all or some of its parts
  • Tom Clancy's The Division, a multiplayer videogame by Ubisoft and Red Storm Entertainment
  • The Division (TV series), a police procedural

See also

  • Dividend, payments made by a corporation to its shareholder members
  • Compartment (disambiguation)
  • Div (disambiguation)
  • Divide (disambiguation)
  • Partition (disambiguation)
  • Section (disambiguation)
  • Segment (disambiguation)
  • Split (disambiguation)
  • Subdivision (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Division
  • All pages with titles containing Division
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