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division

Military formation consisting of two or more brigades. A major general at divisional headquarters commands the brigades and also additional artillery, engineers, attack helicopters, and other logistic support. There are 10,000 or more soldiers in a division. Two or more divisions form a corps.

division

One of the four basic operations of arithmetic, usually written in the form a ÷ b or a/b. It is the inverse of multiplication.

For example, 252 divided by 14 is the same as how many 14s there are in 252; 252 ÷ 14 = 18. The answer can be checked by multiplying 14 by 18; 14 × 18 = 252.
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