LONG DIVISION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does long division mean? 

• LONG DIVISION (noun)
  The noun LONG DIVISION has 1 sense:

1. the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail

  Familiarity information: LONG DIVISION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LONG DIVISION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The operation of division in which the sequence of steps are indicated in detail

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("long division" is a kind of...):

division (an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed)

 Context examples 

One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose en masse, it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)