Division vs. Schism — What's the Difference?

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated

A schism ( SIZ-əm, , SKIZ-əm or, less commonly, SHIZ-əm) is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. The word is most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body, such as the Great East–West Schism or the Western Schism.

Difference or disagreement between two or more groups, typically producing tension

A separation or division into factions

The process of dividing one number by another

A formal breach of union within a religious body, especially a Christian church.

Each of the parts into which something is divided

The offense of attempting to produce such a breach.

A partition

A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.

The act or process of dividing.

(religion) A formal division or split within a religious body.

The state of having been divided.

(Catholicism) a split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy.

(Mathematics) The operation of determining how many times one quantity is contained in another; the inverse of multiplication.

Division or separation;

The proportional distribution of a quantity or entity

Division of a group into opposing factions;

Something, such as a boundary or partition, that serves to divide or keep separate.

One of the parts, sections, or groups into which something is divided.

An area of government or corporate activity organized as an administrative or functional unit.

A territorial section marked off for political or governmental purposes.

An administrative and tactical military unit that is smaller than a corps but is self-contained and equipped for prolonged combat activity.

A group of several ships of similar type forming a tactical unit under a single command in the US Navy.

A former unit of the US Air Force that was larger than a wing and smaller than an air force.

(Botany) The taxonomic category ranking just below kingdom, consisting of one or more related classes, and corresponding approximately to a phylum in zoological classification.

A category created for purposes of competition, as in boxing.

Variance of opinion; disagreement.

A splitting into factions; disunion.

The physical separation and regrouping of members of a parliament according to their stand on an issue put to vote.

(Biology) Cell division.

A type of propagation characteristic of plants that spread by means of newly formed parts such as bulbs, suckers, or rhizomes.

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

The process of dividing a number by another.

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.

(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.

A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.

(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

(music) A florid instrumental variation of a melody in the 17th and 18th centuries, originally conceived as the dividing of each of a succession of long notes into several short ones.

(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.

(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.

(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

A lesson; a class.

(Australia) A parliamentary constituency.

The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.

Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.

Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.

Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.

The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.

A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.

An army unit large enough to sustain combat;

One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;

The act or process of dividing

An administrative unit in government or business

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

Discord that splits a group

A league ranked by quality;

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

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

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

A group of ships of similar type

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