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Definition of Subdivided
1. Adjective. Having the property that something divided into classes has had the classes themselves further divided. ¹
2. Verb. (past of subdivide) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subdivided
1. subdivide [v] - See also: subdivide
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subdivided
Literary usage of Subdivided
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philosophy of Natural History: With an Introduction and Various by William Smellie, John Ware (1851)
"CLASSES are subdivided into a greater or less number of ORDERS ... ORDERS are
subdivided into GENERA. These comprehend animals which have a general external ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The region of tho Groat Valley he calls the Central region, and this is again
subdivided into two parts— the Northern Central and the Southern Central—by ..."
3. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"... the first division of 10 feet being subdivided into feet; mural standards of
the imperial yard, 2 feet, i foot, and subdivided inches. ..."
4. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"Tliis subject is subdivided as follows: Aerial operations leaders Atrocities Mail
seizures Belligerents Maritime law Austria-Hungary Medical and sanitary ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... to indicate that the Vandals and the Goths were originally one great people.(17)
The latter appear to have been subdivided into Ostrogoths, Visigoths, ..."
6. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Henry Vandyke Carter, Luther Holden (1878)
"... near the basilic vein. The Lymphatic Glands of the upper extremity (Fig.
347) may be subdivided into two sets, superficial and deep. Fig. 347. ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... sensory ; and that it has been provisionally subdivided into regions for
vision, hearing, tasting, etc.* If the surface at these points were crushed, ..."
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