division

事業部、部門

大企業の中で、特定の仕事や製品を担当する大きな部門。

やさしい英語で： 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?

使い方： division of something (She manages the European division of the company.)

類義語： department, branch

よく使う表現： sales division, manufacturing division, company division

分割、分配

一つの全体を、より小さな部分に分けること。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： 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.)

類義語： separation, splitting

反対語： combination

よく使う表現： division into parts, equal division, division of labour

割り算、除法

ある数に別の数が何回含まれるかを求める計算。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： division by a number (Division by two gives us six.)

反対語： multiplication

よく使う表現： long division, division by ten, division problem

師団

複数の小さな部隊からなる、陸軍の大きな部隊。

やさしい英語で： 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.

よく使う表現： infantry division, armoured division, army division

区分、部分

全体を分けてできた部分の一つ。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： division of something (Each division of the book covers a different historical period.)

類義語： section, part

よく使う表現： major division, main division, division of something

門

生物の分類で、界の下、綱の上に位置する大きな集まり。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： phylum

よく使う表現： plant division, taxonomic division, division of fungi