division

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪˈvɪʒ(ə)n/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or process of dividing anything. uncountable
  2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. countable,uncountable
  3. The process of dividing a number by another. uncountable
  4. A calculation that involves this process. countable,uncountable
    — I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
  5. A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. countable,uncountable
  6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate. countable,uncountable
  7. 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. countable,uncountable
    — Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
  8. An optional rank subordinate to the infraclass and superordinate to the legion and cohort; a taxon at that rank. countable,uncountable
  9. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. countable,uncountable
    — “Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they’re not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker,” he wrote Tuesday. […] In a July 2020 unveiling of a report from his “Commission on Unalienable Rights” that purported that “more rights does not necessarily mean more justice,” Pompeo fanned flames of division stoked by Trump, warning that “the very core of what it means to be an American, indeed the American way of life itself, is under attack” amid nationwide protests for racial justice and against police brutality.
  10. A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  11. 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. countable,uncountable
  12. A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. countable,uncountable
  13. A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt. countable,uncountable
  14. Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code. countable,uncountable
  15. A lesson; a class. UK,countable,uncountable
  16. A parliamentary constituency. Australia,countable,uncountable

词形变化

divisions plural

词汇关系

近义词
divisio phylum
衍生词
antidivision asexual division Burdwan division cell division cross-division divisional division algebra divisionary division bell divisionism divisionist divisionless division level division of labor division of labour division ring division sign division table division viol division-viol division violist division-violist divisome equation division equidivision Euclidean division fair division first division harmonic division hyperdivision infradivision interdivision intradivision Jalpaiguri division joy division long division Malda division Medinipur division minor civil division misdivision nondivision overdivision predivision Presidency division pseudodivision redivision reduction division reproductive division school division second division second-division short division subdivision superdivision synthetic division time division trial division upper-division
相关词
/ divide dividend divisibility divisible divisive divisor ÷ separation addition + = denominator fraction numerator remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

词源

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin dīvīsiō, dīvīsiōnem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.
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