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▸ noun:  An action which divides a thing into parts, or separates one thing from another.
▸ noun:  A part of something that has been divided.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) An approach to division in which one asks what the size of each part is, rather than (as in quotition) how many parts there are.
▸ noun:  The division of a territory into two or more autonomous ones.
▸ noun:  A vertical structure that divides a room.
▸ noun:  That which divides or separates; that by which different things, or distinct parts of the same thing, are separated; boundary; dividing line or space.
▸ noun:  A part divided off by walls; an apartment; a compartment.
▸ noun:  (law) The severance of common or undivided interests, particularly in real estate. It may be effected by consent of parties, or by compulsion of law.
▸ noun:  (computing) A section of a hard disk separately formatted.
▸ noun:  (databases) A division of a database or one of its constituting elements such as tables into separate independent parts.
▸ noun:  (set theory) A collection of non-empty, disjoint subsets of a set whose union is the set itself (i.e. all elements of the set are contained in exactly one of the subsets).
▸ noun:  (music) A musical score.
▸ verb:  To divide something into parts, sections or shares.
▸ verb:  To divide a region or country into two or more territories with separate political status.
▸ verb:  To separate or divide a room by a partition (ex. a wall), often use with off.

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