Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
5. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
6. A section of a large company.
7. (biology, taxonomy) A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank
8. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. (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.
10. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
11. (legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
12. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
13. (UK, Eton College) A lesson; a class.