division vs shearing

division

noun
  • 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. 

shearing

noun
  • 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. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

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