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dividing (not comparable)

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

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dividing

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

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dividing (plural dividings)

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