11. (Mus.)
Defn: A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
12. (Rhet.)
Defn: The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
13. (Biol.)
Defn: A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom. Cell division (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell. In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see also Karyokinesis). At the same time the protoplasm of the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. — Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. — Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mentally performed and only the results written down; — used principally when the divisor is not greater than ten or twelve.
Syn. — compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution; separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection; difference; variance; discord; disunion.
DIVISIONAL
Di*vi"sion*al, a.
Defn: That divides; pas, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police. Divisional planes (Geol.), planes of separation between rock masses. They include joints.
DIVISIONALLY
Di*vi"sion*al*ly, adv.