Division
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act or process of dividing anything. Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division. (uncountable) The process of dividing a number by another. A calculation that involves this process. A military formation, usually made up of two or three brigades. A section of a large company. A rank (Latin divisio) below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument. 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.
Example sentence: The fundamental division of powers in the Constitution of the United States is between voters on the one hand and property owners on the other.
Variance
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of varying or the state of being variableA difference between what is expected and what happensThe state of differing or being in conflictA discrepancy, especially between two legal documentsThe second central moment in probability
Example sentence: The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.