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divider

[ dih-vahy-der ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that divides.
dividers, a pair of compasses, as used for dividing lines, measuring, etc.
a partition between two areas or dividing one area into two, as a piece of cardboard in a box or a bookcase jutting out from a wall.
room divider.
Mining. bunton.

divider

/ dɪˈvaɪdə /

Also calledroom divider a screen or piece of furniture placed so as to divide a room into separate areas
a person or thing that divides
electronics an electrical circuit with an output that is a well-defined fraction of the given input
a voltage divider

Origin of divider¹

First recorded in 1520–30; divide + -er ¹

At the rear end of the park is a wall or divider maybe six or seven feet high and about twice that wide.

“I got jerked both ways in the car, hit my head on the divider, and then hit my legs on the side of the car,” he says.

For a guy who styled himself as a uniter, not a divider, the nonpartisan legacy looks a little thin.

A divider put up in the living room gave Michelle and Craig their own rooms.

When there comes weariness the divider, and calls the soul away to strange, distant parts, how is one to stay here?

Always feed yourself with the fork; a knife is only used as a divider.

It lacked the master-wheel, the reel and the divider, without which the grain cannot be rightly handled.

Across the divider the traffic was heavier, autos speeding crazily ahead in the direction he was walking; none stopped.

The way the building is built, it seems like this is more or less a long window with a divider in the middle.

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