different between category vs division

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English

Etymology

Late Middle English, borrowed from French catégorie, from Middle French categorie, from Late Latin cat?goria (“class of predicables”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (kat?goría, “head of predicables”). Doublet of categoria.

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /?kæt?????i/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt??(?)?i/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?k?t??(?)?i/, /?k?t???o??i/
• Hyphenation: cat?e?go?ry, cat?e?gory

Noun

category (plural categories)

1. A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.

   • The traditional way of describing the similarities and differences between constituents is to say that they belong to categories of various types. Thus, words like boy, girl, man, woman, etc. are traditionally said to belong to the category of Nouns, whereas words like a, the, this, and that are traditionally said to belong to the category of Determiners.

2. (mathematics) A collection of objects, together with a transitively closed collection of composable arrows between them, such that every object has an identity arrow, and such that arrow composition is associative.

Synonyms

• (group to which items are assigned): class, family, genus, group, kingdom, order, phylum, race, tribe, type
• See also Thesaurus:class

Hyponyms

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Translations

Further reading

• category in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• category in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin d?v?si?, d?v?si?nem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle d?v?sus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”). Doublet of divisio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??v???n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

division (countable and uncountable, plural divisions)

1. (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.

   Synonyms: split, lith

   Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
2. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
3. (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.

   Antonym: multiplication

4. (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.

5. (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.

   Hyponyms: square division, triangular division

6. A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
7. (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.

8. A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
9. (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.

10. (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.
11. (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
12. (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
13. (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.

    Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division

14. (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.

    Synonym: (informal) div

Synonyms

• (taxonomy): divisio, phylum

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Translations

See also

• separation
• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) × (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend
• denominator
• fraction
• numerator

Further reading

• division on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Danish

Noun

division c (singular definite divisionen, plural indefinite divisioner)

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Declension

Further reading

• “division” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Old French, borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionem, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.zj??/

Noun

division f (plural divisions)

1. division (act or process of dividing)
2. (arithmetic) division
3. (military) division
4. division (subsection)

Related terms

• diviser

Further reading

• “division” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

division

1. Alternative form of divisioun

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin divisio, divisionis, noun of process form from perfect passive participle divisus (“divided”), from d?vid? (“divide”)

Noun

division c

1. division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
2. (sports) division, league; an organization of sports teams that habitually play against each other for a championship; the level on which a certain team plays, as compared to others

Declension