Subdivisions
[sʌbdə'vɪʒən]
Examples
- 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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