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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:
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shard
English
Pronunciation
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?a?d/
- (UK) IPA(key): /???d/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???d/
- Rhymes: -??(?)d
Etymology 1
From Middle English shard, scherd, scheard, schord, from Old English s?eard (“a broken piece; shard”), from Proto-Germanic *skard? (“notch; nick”), from *skardaz (“damaged; nicked; scarred”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Scots schaird (“shard”), French écharde (“splinter”), Dutch schaarde (“tear; notch; fragment”), German Scharte (“notch”), Old Norse skarð (“notch, hack”) ( > Danish skår).
The database sense is perhaps derived from the online gaming sense or from SHARD (System for Highly Available Replicated Data), name of a 1980s database product.
Alternative forms
- sherd
Noun
shard (plural shards)
- A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig.
- Synonym: potsherd
- (by extension) A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery.
- Synonym: splinter
- 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[2]
- Inside its exhibit hall, behind panes of glass, in a white-lit lab, a team of restorers works on an ancient Byzantine floor: 44 square yards of stone shards rescued from Lot’s Cave Monastery.
- A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle.
- (online gaming) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources.
- 1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
- "The planet was still bound to the jewel's magic, even as it lay shattered upon the floor of Mondain's castle. For,[sic] within each shattered remnant of the jewel, dwelled a perfect likeness of Sosaria. Thus is the world in which you are born, live, and die. Brittania[sic], that was once Sosaria, now exists as a thousand worlds, each with its own peoples, history and destiny. This Brittania[sic] is but one of many in the multiverse that is... ...ULTIMA ONLINE." - Intro cinematic to the game, written by Michael Morlan [3]
- 1997, Ultima Online. The term "shard" is related to the backstory of the game, in which the Gem of Immortality is shattered by the Stranger, the protagonist of Ultima I.
- (databases) A component of a sharded distributed database.
- Synonym: partition
- (slang, in the singular or in the plural) A piece of crystal methamphetamine.
Derived terms
- potsherd
Translations
Verb
shard (third-person singular simple present shards, present participle sharding, simple past and past participle sharded)
- (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion.
- (transitive) To break (something) into shards.
- (online gaming, transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one.
Translations
References
- (pottery) Shard, in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
Etymology 2
Noun
shard (uncountable)
- The plant chard.
- 1684, John Dryden, “From Horace, Epode 2” in The Second Part of Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, 4th edition, p. 79,[4]
- Not Heathpout, or the rarer Bird,
- Which Phasis, or Ionia yields,
- More pleasing Morsels would afford
- Than the fat Olives of my Fields;
- Than Shards or Mallows for the Pot,
- That keep the loosen’d Body sound,
- Or than the Lamb that falls by Lot,
- To the just Guardian of my Ground.
- 1684, John Dryden, “From Horace, Epode 2” in The Second Part of Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, 4th edition, p. 79,[4]
Anagrams
- Dhars, Hards, hards
Middle English
Noun
shard
- Alternative form of scherd
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