分科|ぶんかbunka[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. noundepartment; section; branch; course; school (e.g. of learning)

• Synonym部門ぶもんNeutralA division within an organization, or a category in a competition; 「分科」 is for dividing academic subjects, as in 「分科会」.
• SynonymセクションNeutralA loanword for a department, block or chapter; 「分科」 leans toward academic subjects and topic groups.
• Related支部しぶWrittenA formal term for a local branch of an organization; 「分科」 is about division by field of study.
• Related部局ぶきょくWrittenA formal term for the bureaus, departments and sections of government offices; 「分科」 is division by specialty.
• Related支所ししょWrittenA formal term for an office set up away from headquarters; 「分科」 involves no geographic element.
• Related分院ぶんいんNeutralA branch hospital or clinic set up away from the main institution; 「分科」 is a division by specialty.
• Related部ぶNeutralA department in a company or office, also a school club; 「分科」 is a finer division of academic subjects.
• RelatedブランチCasualA colloquial loanword for a branch or branch store, now mostly meaning brunch; 「分科」 divides subjects.
• Related支局しきょくWrittenA formal term for a local office of a newspaper or broadcaster; 「分科」 involves no geographic element.
• Related支社ししゃWrittenA formal term for a company's branch office in another region; 「分科」 is a division by specialty.
• Related事業部じぎょうぶWrittenA formal term for a company division organized around a line of business; 「分科」 is for subjects and conferences.
• Related分店ぶんてんNeutralA store split off from the head store; it has nothing to do with the subject division of 「分科」.
• Antonym統合とうごうWrittenA formal term for combining divided things into one; the opposite of 「分科」.
• Antonym総合そうごうNeutralPutting separate things together into a whole, as in 「総合病院」; the opposite of 「分科」.

Use 「分科」 for dividing academic subjects or conference sessions by topic, as in 「分科会」. For departments within an organization pick 「部門」 or 「部」; for regional branches, 「支部」 or 「支社」. 「統合」 and 「総合」 are the opposites, meaning integration and synthesis.

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1. 科目かもくを分わけること。また、その科目かもく。