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Subdivision   /sˈəbdɪvˌɪʒən/   Listen
Subdivision

noun
1.
An area composed of subdivided lots.
2.
The act of subdividing; division of something previously divided.
3.
A division of some larger or more complex organization.  Synonyms: arm, branch.  "Botany is a branch of biology" , "The Germanic branch of Indo-European languages"
4.
A self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical).  Synonym: section.  "The history of this work is discussed in the next section"
5.
A section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided.  Synonym: subsection.



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"Subdivision" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand an important subdivision of the proceedings. I went up to Atlanta on the train and laid in a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar supply of the most gratifying and efficient lines of grub that money could buy. I always was an admirer ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... our purpose to describe the second requisite of production, labor, and point out that it can be either direct or indirect. This division and subdivision can be seen from the classification given below. Under the head of indirect labor are to be arranged all the many employments subsidiary to the production of any one article, and which, as they furnish but a small ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... her father, or her friends, buying lots in some new town site, or in a new subdivision of some city, and, with an eye to the main chance, she desires to follow their example. These lots can be purchased at from L10 to L100, and by holding them for from one to five years they double or treble in value as the ...
— The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 • Various
... he is speaking of the ideal numbers; but he is describing numbers which are pure abstractions, to which he assigns a real and separate existence, which, as 'the teachers of the art' (meaning probably the Pythagoreans) would have affirmed, repel all attempts at subdivision, and in which unity and every other number are conceived of as absolute. The truth and certainty of numbers, when thus disengaged from phenomena, gave them a kind of sacredness in the eyes of an ancient philosopher. Nor is it ...
— The Republic • Plato
... know that Pah-ute County once existed as an Arizona subdivision, or that Nevada took a part of Arizona, or that later, Nevada was given full sixty miles expansion eastward of her boundary line, at the expense of both Arizona and Utah. The natural boundary line in that section between Nevada and Arizona would have been ...
— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock


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