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.
That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
A vertical structure that divides a room.
An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
A musical score.
An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
A part of something that has been divided.
A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.