Division (music) definition

(1) The act or process of dividing

(2) The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart

(3) An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed

(4) 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"

(5) Discord that splits a group

(6) An army unit large enough to sustain combat

"Two infantry divisions were held in reserve"

(7) A group of ships of similar type

(8) A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings

(9) An administrative unit in government or business

(10) (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

(11) (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category

(12) A league ranked by quality

"He played baseball in class D for two years"

"Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"