division
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- n. [数] 除法；部门；分割；师（军队）；赛区
英英释意
- 1. an army unit large enough to sustain combat;
- "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
- 2. 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"
- 3. the act or process of dividing
- 4. an administrative unit in government or business
- 5. an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
- 6. discord that splits a group
- 7. a league ranked by quality;
- "he played baseball in class D for two years"
- "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
- 8. (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
- 9. (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
- 10. a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
- 11. a group of ships of similar type
- 12. the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart