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divide
has definitions from the fields of geography,mathematics
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[ verb ] separate into parts or portions
Examples "divide the cake into three equal parts" "The British carved up the Ottoman Empire after World War I" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast , in Chiba , and divided his life between the land and the sea , supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing_boat . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)`` Now '' , said Arlene , eventually , making them both sit in formation on a big root of a live_oak , the sort of root that divided itself and made their bottoms sag_down and feel comfortable . |
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[ verb ] (mathematics) perform a division
Synonyms Examples "Can you divide 49 by seven?" Used in print (Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)Since * * f and p divides * * f for * * f , we have * * f . This shows that the minimal polynomial for * * f divides * * f . Thus * * f is divisible_by the minimal polynomial p of T , i.e. , * * f divides * * f . It is easily seen that * * f divides g . Related terms |
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[ verb ] act as a barrier between; stand between
Synonyms Examples : "The mountain range divides the two countries" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; so_that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper_limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old_South from the new , but with , of_course , important minority enclaves . (Raymond C. Binder et al., editors, Proceedings...)A plug and a tube with holes in its cylindrical walls divided the chamber above the porous plug into two parts . (Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)Sameness for the Old_Man was framed_in by a wall of ginkgo trees which divided these quarters from the city . |
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[ verb ] come apart
Examples "The two pieces that we had glued separated" Used in print (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)Dirt , which is here defined as particulate material which is usually inorganic and is very often extremely finely divided so as to exhibit colloidal properties . (Louis Zara, Dark Rider....)His being and His will - Stevie could not divide God from his Papa - illumined every parish face , turned the choir into a band of angels , and the pulpit into the tollgate to Heaven . |
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[ verb ] make a division or separation
Synonyms Used in print (Selma Jeanne Cohen, "Avant-Garde Choreography"...)If a work is divided into several large segments , a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance . |
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[ verb ] force, take, or pull apart
Examples "He separated the fighting children" "Moses parted the Red Sea" Used in print (Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)Painters left less and less of a vase in a plain dark color ; instead they divided the surface into many bands or covered it by all-over patterns into which freehand drawing began to creep . |
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[ noun ] a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility)
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[ noun ] (geography) a line that divides two adjacent river systems
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