Synonym of the word DEPARTMENT

n. A part, portion, or subdivision.
n. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like.
n. A subdivision of an organization.
n. A territorial division; a district; especially, in France, one of the districts composed of several arrondissements…
n. (historical) A military subdivision of a country.
n. (obsolete) Act of departing; departure.

n. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
n. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
n. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
n. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
n. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
n. A section of a large company.
n. (taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi,…
n. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
n. (music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived…
n. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
n. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of…
n. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
n. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

n. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
n. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
n. A part of a document.
n. An act or instance of cutting.
n. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
n. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
n. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
n. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
n. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
n. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
n. (category theory) A right inverse.
n. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
n. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
n. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
v. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
v. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons…
v. To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

n. section.
n. zone (designated area).
n. (geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center.
n. (computing) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital…
n. (military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible.
n. (military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier.
n. (science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
n. (calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
n. a field of economic activity.

n. (mathematics) A regular three-dimensional object in which every cross-section is a circle; the figure…
n. A spherical physical object; a globe or ball.
n. (astronomy, now rare) The apparent outer limit of space; the edge of the heavens, imagined as a hollow…
n. (historical, astronomy, mythology) Any of the concentric hollow transparent globes formerly believed to…
n. (mythology) An area of activity for a planet; or by extension, an area of influence for a god, hero etc.
n. (figuratively) The region in which something or someone is active; one's province, domain.
n. (geometry) The set of all points in three-dimensional Euclidean space (or n-dimensional space, in topology)…
n. (logic) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which…
v. (transitive) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to ensphere.
v. (transitive) To make round or spherical; to perfect.

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