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.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The material cut off in this way.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
Tending to cut or tear.