Plot and Division

noun

• A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
  • usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
  • synonyms: secret plan, game
• A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation.
  • usage: "a bean plot"; "a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch"
  • synonyms: plot of land, plot of ground, patch
• The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc..
  • usage: "the characters were well drawn but the plot was banal"
• A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object.

verb

• Plan secretly, usually something illegal.
  • usage: "They plotted the overthrow of the government"
• Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows interactions among variables or how something is constructed.
  • synonyms: diagram
• Make a plat of.
  • usage: "Plat the town"
  • synonyms: plat
• Devise the sequence of events in (a literary work or a play, movie, or ballet. )
  • usage: "the writer is plotting a new novel"

• (v.i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
• (v.i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
• (n.) A plan; a purpose.
• (n.) A plantation laid out.
• (n.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
• (n.) A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
• (v.t.) To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
• (v.t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
• (n.) Any scheme, stratagem, secret design or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
• (n.) A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
• (n.) Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
• (n.) In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.

(DoD, NATO) Map, chart, or graph representing data of any sort.
(DoD, NATO) Representation on a diagram or chart of the position or course of a target in terms of angles and distances from positions; location of a position on a map or a chart.
(DoD, NATO) The visual display of a single location of an airborne object at a particular instant of time.
(DoD, NATO) A portion of a map or overlay on which are drawn the outlines of the areas covered by one or more photographs. See also master plot.

noun

• An army unit large enough to sustain combat.
  • usage: "two infantry divisions were held in reserve"
• One of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.
  • usage: "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division"
  • synonyms: part, section
• The act or process of dividing.
• An administrative unit in government or business.
• Discord that splits a group.
  • synonyms: variance
• A league ranked by quality.
  • usage: "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA"
  • synonyms: class
• Biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category. (
• Botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum. (
• A unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings.
  • synonyms: air division
• A group of ships of similar type.
  • synonyms: naval division
• An arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed.
• The act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart.
  • synonyms: partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation

• (n.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.
• (n.) Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord; variance; alienation.
• (n.) A course of notes so running into each other as to form one series or chain, to be sung in one breath to one syllable.
• (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
• (n.) Separation of the members of a deliberative body, especially of the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.
• (n.) Difference of condition; state of distinction; distinction; contrast.
• (n.) The separation of a genus into its constituent species.
• (n.) That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.
• (n.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a part so distinguished.
• (n.) The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a distinct segment or section.
• (n.) The process of finding how many times one number or quantity is contained in another; the reverse of multiplication; also, the rule by which the operation is performed.
• (n.) The act or process of diving anything into parts or the state of being so divided; separation.
• (n.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities, equivalent to a subkingdom.
• (n.) One of the larger districts into which a country is divided for administering military affairs.
• (n.) Two or more brigades under the command of a general officer.

Identifies the second highest level in the formal City organization in which a specific activity is carried out; several' Division's may comprise a single department.

(DoD, NATO) An organizational part of a headquarters that handles military matters of a particular nature, such as personnel, intelligence, plans, and training, or supply and evacuation.
(DoD, NATO) A tactical unit/formation as follows: a. A major administrative and tactical unit/formation which combines in itself the necessary arms and services required for sustained combat, larger than a regiment/brigade and smaller than a corps. b. A number of naval vessels of similar type grouped together for operational and administrative command, or a tactical unit of a naval aircraft squadron, consisting of two or more sections. c. An air division is an air combat organization normally consisting of two or more wings with appropriate service units. The combat wings of an air division will normally contain similar type units.