Synonyms and Antonyms of division
1
something that divides, separates, or marks off
- we poked our heads over the division between the yards to see what the fuss was about
2
a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization
- the complaints division handled all of the calls from the angry townsfolk
3
one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic
- one of the major divisions of birds
bracket, category, class, classification, family, genus, grade, group, kind, league, order, rank(s), rubric, set, species, tier, type
description, feather, ilk, kidney, like, manner, nature, sort
branch, section, speciality, specialty, subclass, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, variety
breed, race
generation
heading, label, title
4
the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or pieces
- the assembly line was a major development in the division of labor among workers
bifurcation, breakup, cleavage, dissolution, disunion, fractionalization, fractionation, partition, schism, scission, separation, split, sundering
breach, rupture
divorce, severance
decomposition, disassembly, dismemberment, segmentation, subdivision
atomization, dichotomization, polarization
diffusion, dispersal, dispersion, scattering
administration, apportionment, distribution
isolation, seclusion, segregation, sequestration
5
the act or process of giving out something to each member of a group
- the person in charge of the division of the profits among the business partners
6
a lack of agreement or harmony
- that church has been racked by division for some time now, and a split into two denominations seems unavoidable
conflict, disaccord, discord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, variance, war, warfare
