Legion vs Division - What's the difference?
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Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
(military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the , usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
(military, obsolete) a combined arms major military unit featuring cavalry, infantry, and artillery
(military) A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the , founded in 1919.
A large number of people; a multitude.
(often plural) A great number.
(dated, taxonomy) A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.
(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.
Division is a coordinate term of legion.
In military terms the difference between legion and division
is that legion is a large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia while division is a formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.As nouns the difference between legion and division
is that legion is the major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops while division is the act or process of dividing anything.As an adjective legion
is numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.legion
English
(wikipedia legion)Adjective
(-)- Russia's labor and capital resources are woefully inadequate to overcome the state's needs and vulnerabilities, which are legion .
Noun
(en noun)- Where one sin has entered, legions will force their way through the same breach. — John Rogers (1679-1729)
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Synonyms
* (large number of people) host, mass, multitude, sea, throngMeronyms
* (major unit of the Roman army) cohort, maniple, centuryCoordinate terms
* (military unit) fireteam, section, troop, squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment, brigade, division, corps, wing, army, army group * (combined arms) combat team, regimental combat team, brigade combat teamQuotations
* 1606 , *: MACDUFF. Not in the legions / Of horrid hell, can come a devil more damn'd / In evils to top Macbeth. * 1611 , *:: *::: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion : for we are many. *:: *::: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? * 1708 , , Cyder , Book II,Google Books*: Now we exult, by mighty ANNA's Care / Secure at home, while She to foreign Realms / Sends forth her dreadful Legions , and restrains / The Rage of Kings * 1745 , ,
Google Books*: What can preserve my life, or what destroy ? / An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; / Legions of angels can't confine me there. * 1821 , , Sardanapalus , Act IV Scene i,
Books*: SAR. I fear it not; but I have felt—have seen— / A legion of the dead.
Anagrams
* English collective nouns ----division
English
(wikipedia division)Noun
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.