A separation or division into two; a distinction that results in such a division.
The division of a genus into two species; a division into two subordinate parts.
A phase of the moon when it appears half lit and half dark, as at the quadratures.
Such a division involving apparently incompatible or opposite principles; a duality.
The division of a class into two disjoint subclasses that are together comprehensive, as the division of man into white and not white.
Division and subdivision; bifurcation, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; often successive.
An act of dividing.
A distancing between two people or things.
A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.
The topographical boundary dividing two adjacent catchment basins, such as a ridge or a crest.
A thing that divides.
To vote, as in the British parliament and other legislatures, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite sides of the hall or in opposite lobbies), that is, the ayes dividing from the noes.
To share (something) by dividing it.
To separate into two or more parts.
To mark divisions on; to graduate.
To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
To be a divisor of.
To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.