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Definition of Dividing
1. a. That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating.
Definition of Dividing
1. Adjective. Of things that divide or separate. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of divide) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dividing
1. divide [v] - See also: divide
Medical Definition of Dividing
1.
That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments) or bars (as for scales); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. Dividing sinker.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dividing
Literary usage of Dividing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1910)
"10.692, to join Lawrence Thompson and James M'Millan's entry of 1000 acres that
is laid on the dividing ridge between Spencer's creek and Kingston's fork of ..."
2. Cavendish by Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach (1996)
"John Bird, the master of hand dividing, never let more than one other person ...
115 Jesse Ramsden made an excellent dividing machine in the early 1770s ..."
3. Proceedings by Philadelphia County Medical Society (1897)
"AT a meeting of this body, held November 12, 1884,1 i read a paper on " dividing
the Accessory Tendons in the Hands of Musicians. ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"A satisfactory way of obviating this would be to hold a general meeting of the
association only biennially, dividing the association geographically in the ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1856)
"On Certain Forms of Fistula in Ano, with reference chiefly to tlieir Treatment
without dividing the Sphincter Muscles—Mr. HIRD read, Oct. 20th, ..."
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