Phrase Hound found 23 phrases and 9 compound words that contain divisions. The most common are listed below. Open divisions in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 23
- cell divisionsplural of cell division: a process by which a cell divides into two cells
- square divisionsplural of square division: a division composed of two brigades
- minor civil divisionsplural of minor civil division: A primary governmental and/or administrative division of a county or county-equivalent, typically a municipal government such as a city, town, or civil township.
- cross-divisionsplural of cross-division: The division of any group into divisions that cut across each other and produce confusion.
- data divisionsplural of data division: The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are defined
- environment divisionsplural of environment division: The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain other specifications.
- equation divisionsplural of equation division: The second of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division.
- fair divisionsplural of fair division: the problem of dividing a set of resources among several people who have an entitlement to them, such that each person receives their due share
- identification divisionsplural of identification division: The (sometimes optional) part of a COBOL program that identifies the name of the program (and optionally of its programmer)
- joy divisionsplural of joy division: A Nazi concentration camp brothel and its battalion of conscripted sex slaves.
- long divisionsplural of long division: A procedure for dividing multidigit numbers, breaking down the division into a series of easier steps.
- procedure divisionsplural of procedure division: The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute
- reduction divisionsplural of reduction division: the first of the two divisions of meiosis, a type of cell division.
- school divisionsplural of school division: An administrative unit responsible for public primary and secondary schools in a particular locality; the area under the jurisdiction of such an administrative unit.
- second divisionsplural of second division: Being in the second division (the bottom half of the standings).
- short divisionsplural of short division: A division algorithm which breaks down a division problem into a series of easy steps, relying on mental arithmetic.
- time divisionsplural of time division: A division of a geological period or extent of geological time.
- trial divisionsplural of trial division: A simple method of finding the divisors of an integer, or establishing if the integer is prime, by selecting a set of smaller integers and seeing if there is a zero remainder upon division by each one
- synthetic divisionsplural of synthetic division: A method of polynomial long division in which one does not write the variables and some of the calculations.
- harmonic divisionsplural of harmonic division: The configuration of four ordered collinear points such that their cross-ratio is -1.
- triangular divisionsplural of triangular division: A division composed of three regiments.
- Euclidean divisionsplural of Euclidean division: The process of dividing one integer by another to yield a quotient and a remainder smaller than the divisor.
- first divisionsplural of first division: The half of the standings containing the teams with the best records.
Compound words 9
- subdivisionsplural of subdivision: A division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided.
- antidivisionsplural of antidivision: Opposing or countering geopolitical division.
- equidivisionsplural of equidivision: division into equal parts
- misdivisionsplural of misdivision: Incorrect division, e.g. of a word.
- overdivisionsplural of overdivision: The act or result of overdividing.
- predivisionsplural of predivision: division of a chromosome prior to meiosis
- pseudodivisionsplural of pseudodivision: Any of several methods of division that employ addition and shifting of digits.
- superdivisionsplural of superdivision: The division to which a subdivision belongs.
- infradivisionsplural of infradivision: A taxonomic rank below that of division