0 a piece of equipment used in mathematics consisting of two parts that are joined at one end and have sharp points at the other, used for measuring lines and angles and for making marks to show positions along lines
I then, though with some horror at my temerity, asked permission to verify his work with the dividers, and found at the first stroke a difference of at least half an inch in the distance between the eyes.
Kettle marked it off with a leg of the dividers on the chart.
The opposite leg of the dividers is the one to which is attached the spring for close setting of the points.
The image consistently included a pair of dividers opened across the scale bar.
Dividers can be placed at any point, creating a versatile system of classification.
There are dividers placed in the space beneath the rollers to separate and provide channels for the different grades.
This was indeed the case, and fig. 3 demonstrates a power-law relationship between the number of dividers and divider size.
Capacitive voltage dividers and current wall monitor were located on different points of the lines to measure the voltage and current pulses.
