divisions
- 1Plural of division.
Cell divisions occur rapidly during early embryonic development.
The treaty deepened the political divisions between the two regions.
Note
A regular plural that draws on the countable senses of division: the separate parts of a whole, individual calculations, military formations of two or three brigades, and the high-level sections of a large company. The act of dividing is usually uncountable, so here the plural counts separate instances rather than the idea itself. Do not confuse it with the naval parade, which only looks like a plural.
- 2A formal parade at which the company of a ship or shore base assembles by group for inspection and ceremony.
The ship's company mustered for divisions at eight bells.
New recruits rehearsed the drill they would perform at weekly divisions.
Similarparade, inspection, muster
Note
British naval usage treats the word as uncountable despite its plural shape. A crew musters for divisions or falls in at divisions, with no article and no singular form. The grandest version has a proper name: at the Britannia Royal Naval College, the Lord High Admiral's Divisions is held before the monarch or a representative, and even there the verb is singular. Outside naval contexts, read the word as the ordinary plural.
divisions is a form of division
division, noun: The act or process of separating something into distinct parts. Full entry
- Forms
- divisiondivisions plural
- Spelling
- division → divisions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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