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divider

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Meaning

One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.

One who deals out to each his share.

One who, or that which, causes division.

An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.

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The Rhine is still the Rhine, the great divider... Immediately you are over the Rhine, the spirit of place has changed... It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east. D. H. Lawrence

I'm a uniter, not a divider. George W. Bush

A digital phase locked loop uses a digital phase detector; it may also have a divider in the feedback path or in the reference path, or both, in order to make the PLL's output signal frequency a rational multiple of the reference frequency. Source: Internet

Although you’ll need to purchase a rod separately (many used a tension rod), this divider comes with silver grommets with an inner diameter of 1.6 inches for hanging and sliding open and closed. Source: Internet

A programmable divider is particularly useful in radio transmitter applications, since a large number of transmit frequencies can be produced from a single stable, accurate, but expensive, quartz crystal–controlled reference oscillator. Source: Internet

An option for maximizing traffic throughput on a highway is to reverse the flow of traffic on one side of a divider so that all lanes become outbound lanes. Source: Internet

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