division vs variety

division

noun
  • 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 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 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. 

variety

noun
  • A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank. 

  • The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system. 

  • An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a cultivar. 

  • In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities. 

  • A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect. 

  • A collection or number of different things. 

  • The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows. 

  • A deviation or difference. 

  • A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced. 

  • The quality of being varied; diversity. 

  • A specific variation of something. 

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