division vs ramification

ramification vs division

division and ramification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
division	Yes	No	No	No
ramification	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ramification is a hyponym of division; that is, ramification is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than division:

division: the act or process of dividing
ramification: the act of branching out or dividing into branches

Other hyponyms of division include parcellation, cleavage, bisection, quartering, schism, split, cut, cutting, atomisation, atomization, fragmentation, branching, fork, forking, dichotomisation, dichotomization, quantisation, quantization, fractionation, syllabication, syllabification, hyphenation, word division, cut, cutting.

division (noun)	ramification (noun)
the act or process of dividing	the act of branching out or dividing into branches
an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed	an arrangement of branching parts
the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart	a development that complicates a situation
one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole	a part of a forked or branching shape
discord that splits a group
an army unit large enough to sustain combat
a group of ships of similar type
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings
an administrative unit in government or business
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category
a league ranked by quality

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