division

division, département

Grande partie d’une entreprise qui s’occupe d’un type particulier d’activité ou de produit.

En anglais simple : A major part of a large company that handles a particular type of work or product.

• She works in the sales division.
• The company sold its clothing division last year.
• Which division handles customer support?

Comment l'utiliser : division of something (She manages the European division of the company.)

Synonymes : department, branch

Expressions courantes : sales division, manufacturing division, company division

division, partage

Action de séparer un tout en plusieurs parties plus petites.

En anglais simple : The act of separating a whole thing into smaller parts.

• We agreed on an equal division of the money.
• The division of the land caused several arguments.
• Clear division of labour helped the team finish quickly.

Comment l'utiliser : division of something into something (The division of the land into small plots took months.); division of something between/among people (They agreed on the division of the money between the two families.)

Synonymes : separation, splitting

Contraires : combination

Expressions courantes : division into parts, equal division, division of labour

division

Calcul qui permet de savoir combien de fois un nombre est contenu dans un autre.

En anglais simple : A calculation that finds how many times one number fits into another.

• Today we are learning division.
• She solved the problem using long division.
• Division by zero is not allowed in ordinary arithmetic.

Comment l'utiliser : division by a number (Division by two gives us six.)

Contraires : multiplication

Expressions courantes : long division, division by ten, division problem

division

Grand ensemble de soldats composé de plusieurs unités militaires plus petites.

En anglais simple : A large group of soldiers made up of several smaller army units.

• The division moved north.
• Two infantry divisions defended the city.
• He commanded a division during the war.

Expressions courantes : infantry division, armoured division, army division

division, partie, section

Une des parties obtenues en divisant un tout.

En anglais simple : One of the parts into which a whole thing is separated.

• The book has three main divisions.
• Each division contains several smaller sections.
• The dance has four divisions with different rhythms.

Comment l'utiliser : division of something (Each division of the book covers a different historical period.)

Synonymes : section, part

Expressions courantes : major division, main division, division of something

division, embranchement

Grand groupe d’êtres vivants dans la classification scientifique, situé sous le règne et au-dessus de la classe.

En anglais simple : A large scientific group of living things, below a kingdom and above a class.

• These plants belong to the same division.
• Botanists group the species into several divisions.
• A division contains several classes of related organisms.

Synonymes : phylum

Expressions courantes : plant division, taxonomic division, division of fungi