DIVISIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divisional mean? 

• DIVISIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective DIVISIONAL has 3 senses:

1. of or relating to a military division

2. serving to divide or marking a division

3. constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit

  Familiarity information: DIVISIONAL used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVISIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a military division

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

divisional artillery

Pertainym:

division (an army unit large enough to sustain combat)

Derivation:

division (an army unit large enough to sustain combat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Serving to divide or marking a division

Context example:

the divisional line between two states

Similar:

disjunctive (serving or tending to divide or separate)

Derivation:

division (the act or process of dividing)

division (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit

Context example:

fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit

Similar:

fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)

Derivation:

division (one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole)

 Context examples 

This division (1) plans, directs, coordinates and evaluates the Institute's intramural programs in basic science relating to cellular, molecular, genetic, biochemical and immunological mechanisms relevant to the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of cancer; (2) establishes program priorities, allocates resources, integrates the projects of the various laboratories, evaluates program effectiveness and represents the division in management and scientific decision-making meetings within the Institute; (3) identifies the need for and establishes new intramural research activities; (4) supports training and research opportunities in the basic sciences for young investigators; (5) supports the translational research by integrating and coordinating divisional research activities with other NCI divisions, with the institutes, centers and divisions within the NIH as well as with the private sector and the academic research community.

(Division of Basic Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)

He was a captain before he went to the front and following the Argonne battles he got his majority and the command of the divisional machine guns.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)