Divide

Articles concerning Divide include:

In geography:

Water divide or watershed, a ridge of land between two drainage basins
Continental divide, a water divide between the drainage of two oceans
Continental Divide, the North American divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Places:

Divide, Saskatchewan, Canada
Divide, Colorado, USA
Divide County, North Dakota, USA
Triple Divide Peak, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
Great Divide Basin, in Wyoming, USA

In science:

Division (mathematics)
Divide and conquer algorithm, in computer science
Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithm, a concept in the linear algebra branch of mathematics

In popular culture:

Continental Divide (movie)
The Great Divide, an album by Scott Stapp
Across The Great Divide, an album by Canadian-American rockers The Band

In sociology:

Divide and rule, a strategy of gaining and maintaining power
Digital divide, the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet
North-South divide, between wealthy developed countries and poorer developing countries
Cultural divide
Mercedes divide, separating those who can afford a Mercedes-Benz car from those who cannot

A drainage divide, water divide, divide or (outside North America) watershed is the line separating neighbouring Drainage basins A continental divide is a line of elevated Terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that Water falling on one side of the line eventually A continental divide is a line of elevated Terrain which forms a border between two watersheds such that Water falling on one side of the line eventually Divide is a Hamlet in the Canadian Province of Saskatchewan. There are a few abandoned buildings left in Divide as Divide is an unincorporated town and a US Post Office in Teller County, Colorado, United States. Divide County is a County located in the US state of North Dakota. Triple Divide Peak (8020 ft / 2444 m is located in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States. The Great Divide Basin is a 3860 Square mile (10000 Km²) endorheic Drainage basin in south central Wyoming, located between In Mathematics, especially in elementary Arithmetic, division is an arithmetic operation which is the inverse of Multiplication. In Computer science, divide and conquer ( D&C) is an important Algorithm design Paradigm. Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithms are a class of Eigenvalue algorithms for Hermitian or real symmetric matrices that have recently (circa Continental Divide is a 1981 American Romantic comedy. It was directed by Michael Apted from an original Screenplay In Politics and Sociology, divide and rule (derived from Latin divide et impera) (also known as divide and conquer) is a combination The term digital divide refers to the gap between those people with effective access to Digital and Information technology and those without The North-South Divide is the socio-economic and political division that exists between the wealthy developed countries, known collectively as "the Cultural divide is a term of Sociology and Human psychology, referring to attempts to describe the differences in reaction response and perception of people exposed The phrase " Mercedes divide " was spoken by Federal Communications Commission (FCC Chairman Michael Powell at the initiation of his chairmanship

Dictionary

-verb

(transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
(transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
(transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend).
(intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
(intransitive) (biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.

-noun

A thing that divides.
An act of dividing.
A distancing between two people or things.

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