A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
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.
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
From Middle English divisioun, from Old French division, from Latin divisio, noun of process form from perfect passive participle dīvīsus, from dīvidō. divisio.
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