noun
Etymology
Origin of reduction division
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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“On Skid Row, it’s a day-to-day crisis. It’s visible,” said Shoshanna Scholar, director of the harm reduction division at the Los Angeles County Health Department.
From Los Angeles Times
In some forms the reduction division occurs in the secondary spermatocytes instead of the primary.
From Project Gutenberg
"At this point, all the meteorological conditions are offshore so there are no implications, for Japan or other countries near Japan," Maryam Golnaraghi, chief of WMO's disaster risk reduction division, told a briefing.
From Reuters
I'm also contemplating applying my experience in energy efficiency by working internally within a large corporation's sustainability or energy reduction division.
From BusinessWeek
This is certainly a reduction division, for the tetrads are always somewhat elongated and come into the spindle with their longer axes parallel with the axis of the spindle.
From Project Gutenberg
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