0 present participle of divide --
1 to (cause to) separate into parts or groups: --
She divides her time between her apartment in New York and her house in the Berkshires.
This path marks the dividing line between my land and my neighbour's.
There's a narrow alley that divides our house from the one next door.
I think we should divide (up) the costs equally among/between us.
After the Second World War Germany was divided into two separate countries.
At the end of the lecture, I'd like all the students to divide into small discussion groups.
2 to cause a group of people to disagree about something: --
The party is divided on/over the issue of capital punishment.
3 to calculate the number of times that one number fits (exactly) into another: --
The radio gave the armchair listener a chance to cross over the 'wall of darkness dividing the world' and experience the chaos of the jungle.
Often the two coincided, with those living together dividing state and feudal burdens among themselves.
The energetic advantage is balanced by counteracting thermal fluctuations, resulting in an equilibrium of growing, dividing and merging micelles.
Farmers responded by encroaching upon and dividing the commons.
We normalize the results by dividing the entropy by the total number of segments in that session.
They employed a method to control walking by dividing it into motions in the sagittal plane and the lateral plane.
The shaft (calomus) consists of a straight tube which widens slightly before dividing.
These two halves were also distinguished by age with the dividing line at about 80 years old.
