authority vs division

authority

noun
  • Power or right to make or enforce rules or give orders; or a position having such power or right. 

  • A reliable, definitive source of information on a subject. 

  • Persons, regarded collectively, who occupy official positions of power; police or law enforcement. 

  • Official permission; authorisation to act in some capacity on behalf of a ruling entity. 

  • A government-owned agency that runs a revenue-generating activity for public benefit. 

  • Status as a trustworthy source of information, reputation for mastery or expertise; or claim to such status or reputation. 

division

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

  • A calculation that involves this process. 

  • Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code. 

  • The act or process of dividing anything. 

  • 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 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. 

  • A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. 

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

  • Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. 

  • A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied. 

  • The process of dividing a number by another. 

  • A parliamentary constituency. 

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

  • A lesson; a class. 

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

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