The difference between Division and Merger
When used as nouns, division means the act or process of dividing anything, whereas merger means the act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
check bellow for the other definitions of Division and Merger
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Division as a noun (uncountable):
The act or process of dividing anything.
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Division as a noun:
Each of the separate parts of something resulting from division.
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Division as a noun (arithmetic, uncountable):
The process of dividing a number by another.
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Division as a noun (arithmetic):
A calculation that involves this process.
Examples:
"I've got ten divisions to do for my homework."
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Division as a noun (military):
A formation, usually made up of two or three brigades.
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Division as a noun:
A section of a large company.
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Division as a noun (taxonomy):
A rank below kingdom and above class, particularly used of plants or fungi, also (particularly of animals) called a phylum; a taxon at that rank.
Examples:
"Magnolias belong to the division Magnoliophyta."
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Division as a noun:
A disagreement; a difference of viewpoint between two sides of an argument.
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Division as a noun (government):
A method by which a legislature is separated into groups in order to take a better estimate of vote than a voice vote.
Examples:
"The House of Commons has voted to approve the third reading of the bill without a division. The bill will now progress to the House of Lords."
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Division as a noun (music):
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.
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Division as a noun (music):
A set of pipes in a pipe organ which are independently controlled and supplied.
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Division as a noun (legal):
A concept whereby a common group of debtors are only responsible for their proportionate sum of the total debt.
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Division as a noun (computing):
Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code
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Division as a noun (UK, Eton College):
A lesson; a class.
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Merger as a noun:
The act or process of merging two or more parts into a single unit.
Examples:
"Club mergers reduced the number of teams by half"
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Merger as a noun (economics):
The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party.
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Merger as a noun (legal):
An absorption of one or more estate(s) or contract(s) into one other, all being held by the same owner; of several counts of accusation into one judgement, etc.
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Merger as a noun (phonology):
A type of sound change where two or more sounds merge into one.
Examples:
"the [[cot-caught merger]]"