The act or process of confecting; the process of making, compounding, or preparing something.
The result of such a process; something made up or confected; a concoction.
A food item prepared very sweet, frequently decorated in fine detail, and often preserved with sugar, such as a candy, sweetmeat, fruit preserve, pastry, or cake.
A preparation of medicine sweetened with sugar, honey, syrup, or the like; an electuary.
To make into a confection, prepare as a confection.
The act or process of dividing anything.
A calculation that involves this process.
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
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 disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
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.