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.
A separation of connected things.
The legal dissolution of a marriage.
The separation of a bonded pair of animals.
To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.
To end one's own marriage to (a person) in this way.
To separate something that was connected.
To obtain a legal divorce.