διαίρεση — meaning in English

English meaning

• breakdown noun A failure, especially of a machine or vehicle.
• division noun The act of splitting something into separate parts, or one of those resulting parts.
• partition noun A wall or screen that divides a room or space into separate sections.

Senses

διαίρεση is used for these senses in English:

• breakdown (uncountable) Detailed categorization, or itemization or listing, of the components of a thing; (countable) an instance of this.
• division (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.
• partition (computing) A division of a data stream, such as a messaging queue or topic (often representing a unit of parallelism, and of fault tolerance).

breakdown — full definition

1. noun A failure, especially of a machine or vehicle.
2. noun A sudden decline in someone's mental or physical health, often preventing normal functioning.
3. noun A detailed analysis showing the separate parts of something.

division — full definition

1. noun The act of splitting something into separate parts, or one of those resulting parts.
2. noun In mathematics, the process of calculating how many times one number contains another.
3. noun A large military unit, usually made up of several brigades.
4. noun Disagreement or a difference of opinion between groups.
5. noun A league or grouping of sports teams competing at a similar level.

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