DIVISION Copy link • DIVISIONThe act of dividing into parts, divisio: partitio: distributio [SYN. in To DIVIDE]. To make an equal division of anything, aequa portione dividere aliquid. The state of being divided, divisio: diremptio: diremptus: separatio: sejunctio: disjunctio [SYN. in To DIVIDE] (in the sense of keeping apart; second section of that article). That by which anything is kept apart, paries intergerinus (a wall of division, PROP.): discrimen (IMPROP., distinction). The divided part itself, pars: portio: membrum [SYN. in PART]. Scientific division, dispositio (e.g., in rhetoric, architecture, etc.; Vid: also, DISPOSITION): distributio (the arranging everything in its proper place): locus (the principal part of a subject): The divisions of a litterary work, pars (sing.): particula (subdivision or paragraph, in general): caput (principal division): liber (bonk or chapter of a larger work): a division in a speech, incisum, articulus (article): membrum (κῶλον): division in a verse, caesura: incisio (gramm.). Distinction, Vid: Technical term in arithmetic, divisio. Military term, legio (a Roman legion): pars exercitus (a part of the army, in general): agmen (if on the march): in two, three, etc., divisions, bipartito, tripartito: to march up in three divisions or columns, tripartito agmine or diviso in tres partes exercitu incedere; triplici acie instructa proficisci: by or in divisions, exercitu in partes diviso (e.g., to advance or march up, incedere). For the purpose of voting (in the Senate), discessio. To insist that a division shall be taken, discessionem facere: no division took place, discessio non facta est (Cic.). [Vid: To DIVIDE, INTR.] Difference, disunion, Vid: DIVISOR (in arithm.), perhaps *divisor (as technical term).