Section vs. Division

Sectionnoun

A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.

Divisionnoun

(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

Sectionnoun

A part, piece, subdivision of anything.

Divisionnoun

Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.

Sectionnoun

(music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

‘The horn section is the group of symphonic musicians who play the French horn.’;

Divisionnoun

The process of dividing a number by another.

Sectionnoun

A part of a document.

Divisionnoun

(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

‘I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.’;

Sectionnoun

An act or instance of cutting.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

Divisionnoun

A section of a large company.

Sectionnoun

(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.

Divisionnoun

(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.

‘Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.’;

Sectionnoun

(surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

(sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.

Divisionnoun

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

‘The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.’;

Sectionnoun

(botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.

Divisionnoun

(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.

Sectionnoun

(zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

(military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

(category theory) A right inverse.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

(NZ) A piece of residential land; a plot.

Divisionnoun

A lesson; a class.

Sectionnoun

(Canadian) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.

Divisionnoun

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

‘I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.’;

Sectionnoun

(geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Divisionnoun

That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

Sectionverb

To cut, divide or separate into pieces.

Divisionnoun

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

‘Communities and divisions of men.’;

Sectionverb

(British) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.

Divisionnoun

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

‘There was a division among the people.’;

Sectionverb

To perform a cesarean section on (someone).

Divisionnoun

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

‘I will put a division between my people and thy people.’;

Sectionnoun

The act of cutting, or separation by cutting; as, the section of bodies.

Divisionnoun

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

‘The motion passed without a division.’;

Sectionnoun

A part separated from something; a division; a portion; a slice.

Divisionnoun

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.

Sectionnoun

A distinct part or portion of a book or writing; a subdivision of a chapter; the division of a law or other writing; a paragraph; an article; hence, the character often used to denote such a division.

‘It is hardly possible to give a distinct view of his several arguments in distinct sections.’;

Divisionnoun

The separation of a genus into its constituent species.

Sectionnoun

The figure made up of all the points common to a superficies and a solid which meet, or to two superficies which meet, or to two lines which meet. In the first case the section is a superficies, in the second a line, and in the third a point.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

A distinct part of a country or people, community, class, or the like; a part of a territory separated by geographical lines, or of a people considered as distinct.

‘The extreme section of one class consists of bigoted dotards, the extreme section of the other consists of shallow and reckless empirics.’;

Divisionnoun

One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

Sectionnoun

A division of a genus; a group of species separated by some distinction from others of the same genus; - often indicated by the sign .

Divisionnoun

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.

Sectionnoun

One of the portions, of one square mile each, into which the public lands of the United States are divided; one thirty-sixth part of a township. These sections are subdivided into quarter sections for sale under the homestead and preëmption laws.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase.

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

The description or representation of anything as it would appear if cut through by any intersecting plane; depiction of what is beyond a plane passing through, or supposed to pass through, an object, as a building, a machine, a succession of strata; profile.

Divisionnoun

an army unit large enough to sustain combat;

‘two infantry divisions were held in reserve’;

Sectionnoun

a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical);

‘he always turns first to the business section’; ‘the history of this work is discussed in the next section’;

Divisionnoun

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’;

Sectionnoun

a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope;

‘sections from the left ventricle showed diseased tissue’;

Divisionnoun

the act or process of dividing

Sectionnoun

a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people;

‘no section of the nation is more ardent than the South’; ‘there are three synagogues in the Jewish section’;

Divisionnoun

an administrative unit in government or business

Sectionnoun

one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object;

‘a section of a fishing rod’; ‘metal sections were used below ground’; ‘finished the final segment of the road’;

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon

Divisionnoun

discord that splits a group

Sectionnoun

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’;

Divisionnoun

a league ranked by quality;

‘he played baseball in class D for two years’; ‘Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA’;

Sectionnoun

a land unit of 1 square mile measuring 1 mile on a side

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

(geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid

Divisionnoun

(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum

Sectionnoun

a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

a small army unit usually having a special function

Divisionnoun

a group of ships of similar type

Sectionnoun

a specialized division of a large organization;

‘you'll find it in the hardware department’; ‘she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury’;

Divisionnoun

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

Sectionnoun

a segment of a citrus fruit;

‘he ate a section of the orange’;

Divisionnoun

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

‘a gene that helps regulate cell division’; ‘the division of the land into small fields’;

Sectionnoun

the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)

Divisionnoun

the distribution of something separated into parts

‘the division of his estates between the two branches of his family’;

Sectionverb

divide into segments;

‘segment an orange’; ‘segment a compound word’;

Divisionnoun

an instance of members of a legislative body separating into two groups to vote

‘the new clause was agreed without a division’;

Divisionnoun

the action of splitting the roots of a perennial plant into parts to be replanted separately, as a means of propagation

‘the plant can also be easily increased by division in autumn’;

Divisionnoun

the action of dividing a wider class into two or more subclasses.

Divisionnoun

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

‘a growing sense of division between north and south’; ‘deep cultural divisions’;

Divisionnoun

the process of dividing one number by another

‘no multiplication or division is necessary’;

Divisionnoun

the process of dividing a matrix, vector, or other quantity by another under specific rules to obtain a quotient.

Divisionnoun

each of the parts into which something is divided

‘the main divisions of the book’;

Divisionnoun

a major section of an organization, with responsibility for a particular area of activity

‘a retail division’;

Divisionnoun

a group of army brigades or regiments

‘an infantry division’;

Divisionnoun

a number of teams or competitors grouped together in a sport for competitive purposes according to such characteristics as ability or weight

‘the club will finish second in Division One’;

Divisionnoun

a part of a county, country, or city defined for administrative or political purposes

‘a licensing division of a district’;

Divisionnoun

a part of a county or borough forming a parliamentary constituency

‘he was MP for the Lancaster division of North Lancashire’;

Divisionnoun

a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom, equivalent to the phylum in zoology.

Divisionnoun

any subsidiary category between major levels of classification.

Divisionnoun

a partition

‘the villagers lived in a communal building and there were no solid divisions between neighbours’;