{
  "id": "division.process",
  "term": "division",
  "sense": "process",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "division",
  "domain": "process",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the act of making parts out of a whole",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "part.relation",
      "whole.complete",
      "make.verb",
      "act.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "make.verb separates a whole.complete into part.relation through an act.deed",
    "novel_properties": [
      "partitioning",
      "emergent structure",
      "relational fragmentation"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1947 partition of British India created India and Pakistan along religious demographic lines.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Cytokinesis in a human zygote splits one cell into two after mitosis.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "A compiler splits source code into executable object files during the build process.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "process.general",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "divide",
    "divided",
    "divides",
    "dividing",
    "division",
    "divisions"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Added act.deed as it is conceptually necessary and missing from components. Definition was correct, but the record omitted a constitutive concept."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process"
}