Other forms: divisions
A division is the splitting of something into parts, or a section of an organisation. Long division, the sales division, a deep division.
In arithmetic it is the operation, and dividing by zero is undefined rather than infinite. In an organisation a division is a large self-contained unit. In Parliament a division is a vote, taken by members walking into two lobbies. Note divide, from the Latin for separating.
1nounsplittingThe splitting of something into parts.
“The division of the land between the three brothers caused years of arguments.”
2noundivisionA section of an organisation.
“He works in the sales division of a large company.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
division is a splitting, or a unit.
Latin divisio comes from dividere, to divide — dis plus a root meaning to separate. Individual and widow come from related separating.
Proto-Indo-European
*dwóh₁
Latin
divisio
Old French
division
Middle English
divisioun
English, today
division
Built from
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin divisio, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus (“divided”), from dīvidō (“divide”). a doublet of divisio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA