1. subdivision - Noun
2. subdivision - Verb
The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.
A part of a thing made by subdividing.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. J. Philippe Rushton
Though the web of history cannot be unravelled into separate threads without destroying it, a certain amount of subdivision of the subject is, for practical purposes, essential. Eric Hobsbawm
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry. Henry Kissinger
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. James Madison
It searched for truth not by synthesis but by subdivision. It not only broke religion into small pieces, but it was bound to choose the smallest piece. G. K. Chesterton
Subdivision of labour requires that international agents should devote themselves first to languages,-their means of operation,-and next to the study of man, as an individual and in communities. Thomas Taylor Meadows