Division vs Community - What's the difference?
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(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.
A group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law. See civilization.
* Hallam
* Wordsworth
A commune, or residential or religious collective.
The condition of having certain attitudes and interests in common.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
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, title= (ecology) A group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other.
(internet) A group of people interacting by electronic means for social, professional, educational or other purposes; a virtual community.
(obsolete) Common possession or enjoyment; participation.
* (John Locke)
* (Washington Irving)
(obsolete) common character; likeness.
* H. Spencer
(obsolete) commonness; frequency
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As nouns the difference between division and community
is that division is division while community is a group sharing a common understanding and often the same language, manners, tradition and law see civilization.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 ----community
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Noun
(wikipedia community) (communities)- Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community .
- Creatures that in communities exist.
- A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime (Oscar Wilde)
Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.}}
- The original community of all things.
- An unreserved community of thought and feeling.
- The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth.
- Eyes sick and blunted with community .