Range vs Division - What's the difference?
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A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
* L'Estrange
Selection, array.
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An area for military training or equipment testing.
The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
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* Bishop Fell
* Addison
(mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
(statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
(sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
(music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
(ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
(programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
* Sir M. Hale
(obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
(obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
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(US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.
To travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
To rove over or through.
* John Gay
(obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (to), (over).
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To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
(mathematics, computing''; ''followed by over ) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
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To form a line or a row.
* Dryden
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To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
* Shakespeare
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
* Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
* Burke
(biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
To separate into parts; to sift.
To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
(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.
Range is a related term of division.
As nouns the difference between range and division
is that range is homework while division is division.range
English
(wikipedia range)Noun
(en noun)- Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
- He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders.
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- Far as creation's ample range extends.
- The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
- A man has not enough range of thought.
- The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
- (Clarendon)
- He may take a range all the world over.
Synonyms
* (area for military training) base, training area, training ground * (distance to an object) distance, radius * compassAntonyms
* (values a function can obtain) domainHolonyms
* (values a function can obtain) codomainDerived terms
* (area for practicing shooting) archery range * (area for practicing shooting) firing range * (area for practicing shooting) indoor range * (area for practicing shooting) shooting range * (area for practicing shooting) target range * (area for military training) air weapons range * (area for military training) artillery range * (area for military training) grenade range * (area for military training) live-fire range * (area for military training) missile range * (area for military training) rocket range * (area for military training) tank range * (maximum range) effective range * (maximum range) maximum rangeVerb
- to range the fields
- Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
- The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
- At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
- In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?, volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging' from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities ' range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
- to range plants and animals in genera and species
- The front of a house ranges with the street.
- which way the forests range
- The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
- And range with humble livers in content.
- Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
- It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
- The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
- (Holland)
- to range the coast
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English
(wikipedia division)Noun
- I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.
- Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.