Division vs Area - What's the difference?
division | area |
(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
(arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
A section of a large company.
(biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio ) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants]] or [[fungus, 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.
(music) 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.
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
(UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
(mathematics) A measure of the extent of a surface; it is measured in square units.
A particular geographic region.
Any particular extent of surface, especially an empty or unused extent.
Figuratively, any extent, scope or range of an object or concept.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (British) An open space, below ground level, between the front of a house and the pavement.
(soccer) Penalty box; penalty area.
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As nouns the difference between division and area
is that division is division while area is area.division
English
(wikipedia division)Noun
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
Derived terms
* divisional * division of labour * data division * environment division * identification division * procedure division * (military) square division * (military) triangular divisionSynonyms
* split, lithAntonyms
* (making of one thing into two or more things) combination, fusion, merger, unification * multiplicationSee also
* separation * addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total) * subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference) * multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product) * division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend * denominator * fraction * numerator ----area
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(wikipedia area)Rob Dorit
Making Life from Scratch, passage=Today, a new area of research that similarly aims to mimic a complex biological phenomenon—life itself—is taking off. Synthetic biology, a seductive experimental subfield in the life sciences, seems tantalizingly to promise custom-designed life created in the laboratory.}}
- (Charles Dickens)
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner.}}