Synonyms of the word

division

• 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.

class

• n. (countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.
• n. (countable) A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three…
• n. (uncountable) The division of society into classes.
• n. (uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.
• n. (countable and uncountable) A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.
• n. A series of classes covering a single subject.
• n. (countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A…
• n. (countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.
• n. (taxonomy, countable) A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon…
• n. Best of its kind.
• n. (mathematics) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.
• n. (military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those…
• n. (object-oriented programming) A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state),…
• n. One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.
• v. (transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.
• v. (intransitive) To be grouped or classed.
• v. (transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.
• adj. (Ireland, Britain, slang) great; fabulous.

concept

• n. abstract and general idea; an abstraction.
• n. understanding retained in the mind, from experience, reasoning and/or imagination; a generalization (generic,…
• n. (programming) In generic programming, a description of supported operations on a type, including their…

conception

• n. The act of conceiving.
• n. The state of being conceived; the beginning.
• n. The fertilization of an ovum by a sperm to form a zygote.
• n. The start of pregnancy.
• n. The formation of a conceptus or an implanted embryo.
• n. The power or faculty of apprehending of forming an idea in the mind; the power of recalling a past sensation…
• n. An image, idea, or notion formed in the mind; a concept, plan or design.

conference

• n. The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
• n. (politics) A multilateral diplomatic negotiation.
• n. (sciences) A formalized event where scientists present their research results in speeches, workshops,…
• n. (business) An event organized by a for-profit or non-profit organization to discuss a pressing issue,…
• n. (sports) A group of sports teams that play each other on a regular basis.
• n. (obsolete) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
• n. (Methodist Church) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance…
• n. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches…
• v. (transitive, education) To assess (a student) by one-on-one conversation, rather than an examination.

construct

• n. Something constructed from parts.
• n. A concept or model.
• n. (genetics) A segment of nucleic acid, created artificially, for transplantation into a target cell or…
• v. (transitive) To build or form (something) by assembling parts.
• v. (transitive) To build (a sentence, an argument, etc.) by arranging words or ideas.
• v. (transitive, geometry) To draw (a geometric figure) by following precise specifications and using geometric…

discord

• n. Lack of concord, agreement or harmony.
• n. Tension or strife resulting from a lack of agreement; dissension.
• n. (music) An inharmonious combination of simultaneously sounded tones; a dissonance.
• n. Any harsh noise, or confused mingling of sounds.
• v. (archaic) To disagree; to be at variance; to fail to agree or harmonize; clash.

dissension

• n. An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
• n. Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.

league

• n. A group or association of cooperating members.
• n. An organization of sports teams which play against one another for a championship.
• n. (informal) Rugby league.
• v. To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support.
• n. (measurement) The distance that a person can walk in one hour, commonly taken to be approximately three…
• n. A stone erected near a public road to mark the distance of a league.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

partition

• n. An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
• n. A part of something that has been divided.
• n. (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as…
• n. The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
• n. A vertical structure that divides a room.
• n. That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing,…
• n. A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
• n. (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected…
• n. (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
• n. (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate…
• n. (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e.…
• n. (music) A musical score.
• v. To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
• v. To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
• v. To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

partitioning

• v. present participle of partition.
• n. The act or result of dividing into partitions; an arrangement of partitions.

phylum

• n. (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below kingdom and above class; also called a division,…
• n. (linguistics) A large division of possibly related languages, or a major language family which is not…

section

• 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).

sectionalisation

• n. Alternative form of sectionalization.

sectionalization

• n. division into sections.

segmentation

• n. The act or an instance of dividing into segments.
• n. The state of being divided into segments.

separation

• n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• n. The place at which a division occurs.
• n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
• n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
• n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

variance

• n. The act of varying or the state of being variable.
• n. A difference between what is expected and what happens.
• n. The state of differing or being in conflict.
• n. A discrepancy, especially between two legal documents.
• n. (statistics) The second central moment in probability.
• n. (computing, programming) covariance and contravariance generally.