long division

1. 1.

   the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail

   Broaderdivision

Questions about long division

What does long division mean?

long division means "the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail".

Is long division a common word?

long division is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.