Subdivide
[sʌbdɪ'vaɪd] or ['sʌbdɪvaɪd]
Definition
(verb.) divide into smaller and smaller pieces; 'This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!'.
(verb.) form into subdivisions; 'The cells subdivided'.
Edited by Leah--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To divide the parts of (anything) into more parts; to part into smaller divisions; to divide again, as what has already been divided.
(v. i.) To be, or to become, subdivided.
Checker: Prudence
Definition
v.t. to divide into smaller divisions: to divide again.—v.i. to be subdivided: to separate.—adj. Subdivī′sible.—n. Subdivi′sion the act of subdividing: the part made by subdividing.—adjs. Subdivi′sional; Subdivī′sive.
Editor: Vince
Examples
- His command was subdivided into four departments, but the commanders all reported to Sherman and were subject to his orders. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The radius is divided into sixty equal parts, and these again divided and subdivided sexage simally. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Each compartment is partially subdivided, and so there are two tolerably distinct parties of four in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was easy to see what the thing needed: it wanted to be subdivided. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In the Old World, scientists generally still declared the impossibility of subdividing the electric-light current, and in the public press Mr. Edison was denounced as a dreamer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Farmer subdivides Electric Current through a number of Electric Lamps, and lights first dwelling by Electricity. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Checked by Adrienne