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say it: di-VIZH-uhn
division is a noun meaning "an army unit large enough to sustain combat". It carries 12 recorded senses.
an army unit large enough to sustain combat
“two infantry divisions were held in reserve”
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”
the act or process of dividing
an administrative unit in government or business
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
biology
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
a group of ships of similar type
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for division come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.