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divisio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • distribution noun The act of spreading or handing something out.
  • division noun The act of splitting something into separate parts, or one of those resulting parts.

Senses

divisio is used for these senses in English:

  • distribution An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
  • division (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
  • division (botany, mycology) 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.

distribution — full definition

  1. noun The act of spreading or handing something out.
  2. noun The process of getting goods from a maker to the people who buy them.
  3. noun In statistics, the pattern showing how spread out or common different values are.

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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