dividing

Etymology

adj

  1. Serving to divide or separate.
    We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of divide
    Dividing seven dollars among three people is difficult!

noun

  1. An act of division.
    Hence the noun also means dividing, or portion as that which is divided — whether an inheritance, or whether the dividings of spoil after battle. 1840, Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah

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