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division
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)
- (uncountable) The act or process of dividing anything.
- Synonyms: split, lith
- Antonyms: combination, fusion, merger, unification
- Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
- (arithmetic, uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another.
- Antonym: multiplication
- (arithmetic) A calculation that involves this process.
- (military) A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
- Hyponyms: square division, triangular division
- A usually high-level section of a large company or conglomerate.
- (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.
- A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
- (government) A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
- (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.
- (music) A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
- (law) A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
- (computing) Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- Hyponyms: identification division, environment division, data division, procedure division
- (Britain, Eton College) A lesson; a class.
- Synonym: (informal) div
Synonyms
- (taxonomy): divisio, phylum
Derived terms
Related terms
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)
- division (act or process of dividing)
- (arithmetic) division
- (military) division
- 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
- 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
- division; act of dividing (e.g. numbers); large military unit; section of a company
- (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
division From the web:
- what division are the chiefs in
- what division are the steelers in
- what division is tampa bay in
- what division are the cowboys in
- what division are the browns in
- what division is naia
- what division is clemson in
- what division are the packers in
ratio
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of ration and reason.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??e?.?o?/, /??e?.?i?o?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??e?.?i.??/, /??e?.???/
Noun
ratio (plural ratios)
- A number representing a comparison between two named things.
- (arithmetic) The relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient).
- (law) Short for ratio decidendi.
- (Internet) The amount of comments to a post or other expression on social media relative to the number of likes.
Derived terms
Related terms
- obiter
- obiter dictum
- ratio decidendi
- rational
- irrational
Translations
Verb
ratio (third-person singular simple present ratios, present participle ratioing, simple past and past participle ratioed)
- (transitive, social media) To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives.
Anagrams
- Artio, Otira, ariot, artoi, atrio-, iatro-
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rati?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ra?.(t)si.o?/
- Hyphenation: ra?tio
Noun
ratio f (plural ratio's)
- (mathematics, countable) ratio, proportion
- Synonym: verhouding
- (uncountable) reason
- Synonyms: rede, verstand
Related terms
- rationalisme
- rationeel
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of raison and ration.
Noun
ratio m (plural ratios)
- (mathematics) ratio
Further reading
- “ratio” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin rati? (“reason, explanation”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rat.t?sjo/
- Rhymes: -attsjo
- Hyphenation: rà?tio
Noun
ratio f (uncountable)
- reason, motive
- Synonyms: motivazione, motivo, ragione
- expedient
- Synonym: espediente
Related terms
- ragione
- razione
Latin
Etymology
From ratus / reor (“to compute”) +? -ti?.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?ra.ti.o?/, [?rät?io?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?ra.t?si.o/, [?r??t??s?i?]
Noun
rati? f (genitive rati?nis); third declension
- reason, reasoning, explanation, ground, motive, rationality, rationale
- calculation, account, accounting, reckoning, computation, business
- procedure, course, manner, method, mode, conduct, plan
- theory, view
- doctrine, system, philosophy (collective body of the teachings of a school of thought)
- register (list)
- regard, respect, interest, consideration
- reference, relation, respect
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- rati?n?bilis
- rati?n?lis
- rati?n?rium
- rati?cinor
- ratiuncula
Related terms
- rati?cinium
Descendants
See also
- pr?porti?
References
- ratio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ratio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ratio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- ratio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ratio. Doublet of razón and ración.
Noun
ratio f (plural ratios)
- (mathematics) ratio
ratio From the web:
- what ratio is the same as 2/3
- what ratio is equivalent to 3/4
- what ratio is equivalent to 7/3
- what ratio is equivalent to 8 to 2
- what ratio is equivalent to 4/5
- what ratio is equivalent to 1.1
- what ratios form a proportion
- what ratios are equivalent to 2/3
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