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Division vs Lith - What's the difference?

division | lith |

As nouns the difference between division and lith

is that division is division while lith is a limb; any member of the body or lith can be owndom; property or lith can be a gate; a gap in a fence.

division

Noun

  • (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.
  • I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
  • (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
  • Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.
  • 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.
  • Derived terms

    * divisional * division of labour * data division * environment division * identification division * procedure division * (military) square division * (military) triangular division

    Synonyms

    * split, lith

    Antonyms

    * (making of one thing into two or more things) combination, fusion, merger, unification * multiplication

    See 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 ----

    lith

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lith, lyth, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A limb; any member of the body.
  • A joint; a segment or symmetrical part or division.
  • :
  • *:
  • *:he departed with the lady / & brou?t her to Camelot / Soo as they rode in a valey it was ful of stones / and there the ladyes hors stumbled and threwe her doun that her arme was sore brysed and nere she swouned for payne / Allas syr sayd the lady myn arme is oute of lythe wher thorow I must nedes reste me
  • (label) A segment of an orange, or similar fruit.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) lith, . More at (l).

    Noun

    (-)
  • Owndom; property.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) *. More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gate; a gap in a fence.
  • Anagrams

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