Division vs Proposition - 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.
(uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
(countable) An idea or a plan offered.
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(countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
(countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
(countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion.
(countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
(countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.
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(poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
To propose a plan to (someone).
To propose some illicit behaviour to (someone). Often sexual in nature.
Division is a related term of proposition.
As nouns the difference between division and proposition
is that division is division while proposition is (uncountable) the act of offering (an idea) for consideration.As a verb proposition is
to propose a plan to (someone).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 ----proposition
English
Noun
- the propositions of Wyclif and Huss
- Some persons change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.