division

I (act of dividing) noun allocation, allotment, apportionment, breaking, breakup, cleavage, cut, cutting, departmentalization, detachment, disaccord, disagreement, disassociation, disbandment, disconnection, discord, disengagement, disharmony, disjunction, disjuncture, dismemberment, dispersal, dispersion, dissemination, dissension, disseverance, dissipation, dissociation, dissonance, distribution, disunion, disuniting, disunity, divisio, divorce, faction, noncooperation, opposition, parcelling, parting, partitio, partition, portioning, rationing, schism, scission, section, segmentation, segregation, sejunction, separation, severance, sharing, split, splitting, spread, sunderance, tearing, uncoupling, untying associated concepts: division of costs, division of damages, division of governmental powers, division of property, equitable division, final division and distribution, political subdivision II (administrative unit) noun area, branch, cadre, canton, category, chapter, class, classification, department, district, group, grouping, province, region, ward, zone III index affiliate, alienation (estrangement), apportionment, argument (contention), article (distinct section of a writing), assignment (allotment), bureau, capacity (sphere), chamber (compartment), chapter (branch), class, classification, component, conflict, constituency, constituent (part), decentralization, denomination, department, detail, dichotomy, disaccord, disassociation, discord, discrimination (differentiation), dispensation (act of dispensing), dissension, distribution (apportionment), equity (share of ownership), estrangement, faction, incompatibility (difference), installment, kind, manner (kind), member (constituent part), moiety, offshoot, organ, part (place), part (portion), plot (land), province, ration, region, rubric (title), schism, segment, segregation (separation), separation, severance, split, subdivision, subheading, territory, unit (department), variance (disagreement)