division : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a district defined for administrative purposes
  administrative division; administrative district.
  

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• noun the division of a business that is responsible for advertising
  advertising department.
  

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• noun a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
  division.
  

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• noun a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones
  benthonic zone; benthos.
  

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• noun the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
  cell division.
  

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• (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells.

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• noun the process in reproduction and growth by which a cell divides to form daughter cells
  cell division.
  

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• (Arith.), the addition, substraction, etc., of compound numbers.

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• noun classification according to more than one attribute at the same time
  cross-classification.
  
  • the cross-classification of cases was done by age and sex

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• noun comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta)
  division Anthophyta; Anthophyta; Magnoliophyta; Angiospermae; class Angiospermae.
  

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• noun in some classifications considered a kingdom
  

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• noun a division of nonflowering plants characterized by rhizoids rather than true roots and having little or no organized vascular tissue and showing alternation of generations between gamete-bearing forms and spore-bearing forms; comprises true mosses (Bryopsida) and liverworts (Hepaticopsida) and hornworts (Anthoceropsida)
  Bryophyta.
  

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• noun large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants
  Chlorophyta.
  

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• noun mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta
  Chrysophyta.
  

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• noun prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom; coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)
  Cyanophyta.
  

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• noun a division of the order Therapsida from the Triassic period comprising small carnivorous tetrapod reptiles often with mammal-like teeth
  Cynodontia.
  

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• noun a division of Therapsida
  Dicynodontia.
  

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• noun one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella
  

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• noun free-swimming flagellate algae
  Euglenophyta.
  

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• noun true fungi; eukaryotic heterotrophic walled organisms; distinguished from Myxomycota (funguslike slime molds): comprises subdivisions Mastigomycotina; Zygomycotina; Ascomycotina; Basidiomycotina; Deuteromycotina (imperfect fungi)
  Eumycota.
  

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• noun slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista
  division Gymnomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota.
  

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• noun plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida)
  Gymnospermae; Gymnospermophyta; class Gymnospermae.
  

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• noun algae having chlorophyll a and usually c, and flagella of unequal lengths; terminology supersedes Chrysophyta in some classifications
  Heterokontophyta.
  

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• noun comprising the lichens which grow symbiotically with algae; sometimes treated as an independent group more or less coordinate with algae and fungi
  Lichenes.
  

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• noun comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta)
  division Anthophyta; Anthophyta; Magnoliophyta; Angiospermae; class Angiospermae.
  

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• noun slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista
  division Gymnomycota; Gymnomycota; Myxomycota.
  

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• noun coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta
  Phaeophyta.
  

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• noun eukaryotic one-celled living organisms distinct from multicellular plants and animals: protozoa, slime molds, and eukaryotic algae
  Protista.
  

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• noun containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta
  Pteridophyta.
  

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• noun lower plants; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae
  Rhodophyta.
  

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• noun former term for the Cyanophyta
  Schizophyta.
  

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• noun seed plants; comprises the Angiospermae (or Magnoliophyta) and Gymnospermae (or Gymnospermophyta); in some classification systems Spermatophyta is coordinate with Pteridophyta (spore producing plants having vascular tissue and roots) and Bryophyta (spore producing plants lacking vascular tissue and roots)
  Spermatophyta.
  

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• noun in former classifications: comprising plants with a vascular system including ferns and fern allies as well as seed plants
  Tracheophyta.
  

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• noun an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure
  

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

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• (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down.
• . (Math.) See Division.

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• noun the principal agency of the United States Navy for research and development for air warfare and missile weapon systems
  NAWCWPNS.
  

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• noun a group of ships of similar type
  division.
  

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• that division of endogenous plants in which the perianth is wholly or partly petaline, embracing the Liliaceæ, Orchidaceæ, Amaryllideæ, etc.

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• noun a stage in meiosis or mitosis
  

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• noun (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)
  miosis; meiosis.
  

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• noun the division of a business that is responsible for selling products or services
  sales department; sales force.
  

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

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• (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.

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• noun a district defined for administrative purposes
  administrative division; administrative district.
  

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• noun division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page
  hyphenation.
  

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