The act of treating one thing as distinct from another, or of creating such a distinction; of separating a class of things into categories; of describing a thing by illustrating how it is different from something else.
The process of separation of cooling magma into various rock types.
The process of applying the derivative operator to a function; of calculating a function's derivative.
The evolutionary process by which one taxonomic group (species, genus, variety, etc.) becomes distinct from another, or acquires distinct features; the result of such a process: distinctness.
The process of developing distinct components.
The process by which the components of multicellular life (cells, organs, etc.) are produced and acquire function, as when a seed develops the root and stem, and the initial stem develops the leaf, branches, and flower buds.
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.