Division vs. Distribution
Difference Between Division and Distribution
Divisionnoun
(uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
Distributionnoun
An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
Divisionnoun
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
Distributionnoun
An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
Divisionnoun
The process of dividing a number by another.
Distributionnoun
The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
Divisionnoun
(arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
I've got ten divisions to do for my homework.Distributionnoun
The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
Divisionnoun
(military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
Distributionnoun
Anything distributed; portion; share.
Divisionnoun
A section of a large company.
Distributionnoun
The result of distributing; arrangement.
Divisionnoun
(taxonomy) A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta.Distributionnoun
A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
Divisionnoun
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
Distributionnoun
(computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
Divisionnoun
(government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords.Distributionnoun
(economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.Divisionnoun
(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.
Distributionnoun
(finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
Divisionnoun
(music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
Distributionnoun
(logic) The resolution of a whole into its parts.
Divisionnoun
(legal) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Distributionnoun
The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Divisionnoun
(computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
Distributionnoun
(steam engines) The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
Divisionnoun
A lesson; a class.
Distributionnoun
(rhetoric) A rhetorical technique in which a subject is divided into multiple cases based on some property or properties, and each case is addressed individually.
Divisionnoun
an army unit large enough to sustain combat;
two infantry divisions were held in reserveDistributionnoun
(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Divisionnoun
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole;
the written part of the examthe finance section of the companythe BBC's engineering divisionDistributionnoun
the spatial property of being scattered about over an area or volume
Divisionnoun
the act or process of dividing
Distributionnoun
the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
Divisionnoun
an administrative unit in government or business
Distributionnoun
the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
Divisionnoun
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed
Divisionnoun
discord that splits a group
Divisionnoun
a league ranked by quality;
he played baseball in class D for two yearsPrinceton is in the NCAA Division 1-AADivisionnoun
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
Divisionnoun
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
Divisionnoun
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
Divisionnoun
a group of ships of similar type
Divisionnoun
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart
