short division

1. 1.

   the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out

   Broaderdivision

Questions about short division

What does short division mean?

short division means "the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out".

Is short division a common word?

short 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.