All division synonyms

noun division

• separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
• distribution — an act or instance of distributing.
• sector — Geometry. a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle.
• category — If people or things are divided into categories, they are divided into groups in such a way that the members of each group are similar to each other in some way.
• section — a part that is cut off or separated.
• share — a plowshare.
• affiliate — An affiliate is an organization which is officially connected with another, larger organization or is a member of it.
• split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
• branch — The branches of a tree are the parts that grow out from its trunk and have leaves, flowers, or fruit growing on them.
• department — A department is one of the sections in an organization such as a government, business, or university. A department is also one of the sections in a large shop.
• segment — one of the parts into which something naturally separates or is divided; a division, portion, or section: a segment of an orange.
• class — A class is a group of pupils or students who are taught together.
• dispute — to engage in argument or debate.
• disagreement — the act, state, or fact of disagreeing.
• conflict — Conflict is serious disagreement and argument about something important. If two people or groups are in conflict, they have had a serious disagreement or argument and have not yet reached agreement.
• discord — lack of concord or harmony between persons or things: marital discord.
• selection — an act or instance of selecting or the state of being selected; choice.
• disunion — a severance of union; separation; disjunction.
• dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
• disjuncture — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined; disjunction.
• apportionment — the act of apportioning
• severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
• divorce — a divorced man.
• breaking — (in Old English, Old Norse, etc) the change of a vowel into a diphthong
• reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
• detachment — Detachment is the feeling that you have of not being personally involved in something or of having no emotional interest in it.
• autopsy — An autopsy is an examination of a dead body by a doctor who cuts it open in order to try to discover the cause of death.
• parting — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• subdivision — the act or fact of subdividing.
• demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
• partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
• analysis — Analysis is the process of considering something carefully or using statistical methods in order to understand it or explain it.
• diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
• rupture — the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
• parceling — an object, article, container, or quantity of something wrapped or packed up; small package; bundle.
• carving — A carving is an object or a design that has been cut out of a material such as stone or wood.
• vivisection — the action of cutting into or dissecting a living body.
• dismemberment — to deprive of limbs; divide limb from limb: The ogre dismembered his victims before he ate them.
• bisection — to cut or divide into two equal or nearly equal parts.
• segmentation — division into segments.
• wedge — a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer. Compare machine (def 3b).
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• chunk — Chunks of something are thick solid pieces of it.
• border — The border between two countries or regions is the dividing line between them. Sometimes the border also refers to the land close to this line.
• moiety — a half.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• divvy — a distribution or sharing.
• member — a person, animal, plant, group, etc., that is part of a society, party, community, taxon, or other body.
• lobe — a roundish projection or division, as of an organ or a leaf.
• fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.