資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   2. Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a
      considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series
      of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a
      long book.

   3. Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration;
      lingering; as, long hours of watching.

   4. Occurring or coming after an extended interval; distant in
      time; far away.

            The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against
            the tournament, which is not long.    --Spenser.

   5. Extended to any specified measure; of a specified length;
      as, a span long; a yard long; a mile long, that is,
      extended to the measure of a mile, etc.

   6. Far-reaching; extensive. `` Long views.'' --Burke.

   7. (Phonetics) Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in
      utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See {Short},
      a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 22, 30.

   Note: Long is used as a prefix in a large number of compound
         adjectives which are mostly of obvious meaning; as,
         long-armed, long-beaked, long-haired, long-horned,
         long-necked, long-sleeved, long-tailed, long- worded,
         etc.

   {In the long run}, in the whole course of things taken
      together; in the ultimate result; eventually.

   {Long clam} (Zo["o]l.), the common clam ({Mya arenaria}) of
      the Northern United States and Canada; -- called also
      {soft-shell clam} and {long-neck clam}. See {Mya}.

   {Long cloth}, a kind of cotton cloth of superior quality.

   {Long clothes}, clothes worn by a young infant, extending
      below the feet.

   {Long division}. (Math.) See {Division}.

   {Long dozen}, one more than a dozen; thirteen.

   {Long home}, the grave.

   {Long measure}, {Long mater}. See under {Measure}, {Meter}.
      

   {Long Parliament} (Eng. Hist.), the Parliament which
      assembled Nov. 3, 1640, and was dissolved by Cromwell,
      April 20, 1653.

   {Long price}, the full retail price.

   {Long purple} (Bot.), a plant with purple flowers, supposed
      to be the {Orchis mascula}. --Dr. Prior.

   {Long suit} (Whist), a suit of which one holds originally
      more than three cards. --R. A. Proctor.

   {Long tom}.
      (a) A pivot gun of great length and range, on the dock of
          a vessel.
      (b) A long trough for washing auriferous earth. [Western
          U.S.]
      (c) (Zo["o]l.) The long-tailed titmouse.

   {Long wall} (Coal Mining), a working in which the whole seam
      is removed and the roof allowed to fall in, as the work
      progresses, except where passages are needed.

   {Of long}, a long time. [Obs.] --Fairfax.

   {To be}, or {go}, {long of the market}, {To be on the long
   side of the market}, etc. (Stock Exchange), to hold stock for
      a rise in price, or to have a contract under which one can
      demand stock on or before a certain day at a stipulated
      price; -- opposed to {short} in such phrases as, to be
      short of stock, to sell short, etc. [Cant] See {Short}.

   {To have a long head}, to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.

Division \Di*vi"sion\, n. [F. division, L. divisio, from
   dividere. See {Divide}.]
   1. The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the
      state of being so divided; separation.

            I was overlooked in the division of the spoil.
                                                  --Gibbon.

   2. That which divides or keeps apart; a partition.

   3. The portion separated by the divining of a mass or body; a
      distinct segment or section.

            Communities and divisions of men.     --Addison.

   4. Disunion; difference in opinion or feeling; discord;
      variance; alienation.

            There was a division among the people. --John vii.
                                                  43.

   5. Difference of condition; state of distinction;
      distinction; contrast. --Chaucer.

            I will put a division between my people and thy
            people.                               --Ex. viii.
                                                  23.

   6. Separation of the members of a deliberative body, esp. of
      the Houses of Parliament, to ascertain the vote.

            The motion passed without a division. --Macaulay.

   7. (Math.) 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.

   8. (Logic) The separation of a genus into its constituent
      species.

   9. (Mil.)
      (a) Two or more brigades under the command of a general
          officer.
      (b) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one
          subdivision of a battalion.
      (c) One of the larger districts into which a country is
          divided for administering military affairs.

   10. (Naut.) One of the groups into which a fleet is divided.

   11. (Mus.) 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.

   12. (Rhet.) The distribution of a discourse into parts; a
       part so distinguished.

   13. (Biol.) A grade or rank in classification; a portion of a
       tribe or of a class; or, in some recent authorities,
       equivalent to a subkingdom.

   {Cell division} (Biol.), a method of cell increase, in which
      new cells are formed by the division of the parent cell.
      In this process, the cell nucleus undergoes peculiar
      differentiations and changes, as shown in the figure (see
      also {Karyokinesis}). At the same time the protoplasm of
      the cell becomes gradually constricted by a furrow
      transverse to the long axis of the nuclear spindle,
      followed, on the completion of the division of the
      nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two
      masses, called the daughter cells.

   {Long division} (Math.), the process of division when the
      operations are mostly written down.

   {Short division} (Math.), the process of division when the
      operations are mentally performed and only the results
      written down; -- used principally when the divisor is not
      greater than ten or twelve.

   Syn: compartment; section; share; allotment; distribution;
        separation; partition; disjunction; disconnection;
        difference; variance; discord; disunion.

資料來源 : WordNet®

long division
     n : the operation of division in which the sequence of steps are
         indicated in detail