The phrase "act of division" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing mathematics, processes of separation, or organizational structures.
Example: "The act of division in mathematics is fundamental to understanding fractions and ratios."
Alternatives: "process of dividing" or "division action".
I believe true leadership is a process of addition, not an act of division.
Addressing the supreme creative artist's intellectual personality, he begins with an act of division, describing Dante, Pascal, Ibsen and Proust (inter alia) as hedgehogs and Shakespeare, Herodotus, Aristotle, Montaigne, Balzac, Goethe and Joyce as foxes.
Likewise, no matter how finely I divide a body, any particular act of division will yield a finite number of parts.
Skop published her work in the 2 July 2004 issue of Science, and her image of Chinese hamster cells caught in the act of division landed on the cover.
The new variant of the process allows the decision to proceed to either to proliferation or to apoptosis (or to quiescence) to precede the act of division or apoptosis initiation.
For many models, the specifics of cell division are not important to the study but the act of division and the resulting growth of the cell population may be very important, especially if the time scale of interest extends across numerous cell divisions.
To ensure faithful organelle inheritance, the segregation of each cellular component must be tightly coupled to the act of cell division.
But House Republican leaders have been reluctant to act because of divisions within the party's rank-and-file about the cost of the nearly $1 trillion bill.
In this sense, telomeres act as a mitotic clock that "records" the number of divisions a cell has undergone.
Taken together, these results suggested that auxin acts by promoting divisions of quiescent cambial cells rather than by increasing the number of divisions of already dividing cells, the former producing a net increase in the number of cell clusters within the cambial ring.
