Subdivision
['sʌbdɪvɪʒ(ə)n;sʌbdɪ'vɪʒ(ə)n] or [,sʌbdɪ'vɪʒn]
Definition
(noun.) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided.
(noun.) an area composed of subdivided lots.
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Definition
(n.) The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.
(n.) A part of a thing made by subdividing.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Division, dividing, ramification.[2]. Part, portion, piece, fraction, section.
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Examples
- The scientific world had been working hard on subdivision for years, using what appeared to be common sense. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They belonged mostly to the Caucasian group of races and to the blond and northern subdivision of the group, to the Nordic race that is. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then, how about the subdivision of the electric light? Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No separate figures are available to show the extent of its employment in the second and fourth classes, as they are probably included in machines coming under the first subdivision. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It may easily be believed that the term subdivision was a misleading one to these early experimenters. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We soon saw that the subdivision never could be accomplished unless each light was independent of every other. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- At this time, and for some years previously, the scientific world had been working on the subdivision of the electric light, as it was then termed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Their hours and minut es had each sixty subdivisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The most esteemed of the painted caves is ascribed to the latter part of this the first of the three subdivisions of the newer Pal?olithic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The various subdivisions of caste are very complex; many are practically trade organizations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They calculate the year by the revolution of the sun and moon, but use no subdivisions into weeks. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- The greater their number, the more they naturally divide themselves into different classes and subdivisions of employments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They divided the circ le into six parts and into six-times-sixty subdivisions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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