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divide

Chiefly US and Canadian an area of relatively high ground separating drainage basins; watershed
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divide

[də′vīd]
(geography)
A ridge or section of high ground between drainage systems.
(mathematics)
One object (integer, polynomial) divides another if their quotient is an object of the same type.
(science and technology)
A point or line of division.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Whatever the remainder you can turn this into a decimal by dividing it or simply leave it as a remainder.
Dividing stops many herbaceous plants becoming overcrowded and losing vigour as they would over time if they were left alone.
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It is calculated by dividing avail able time by demand.
Generally, an assets-over transaction is one in which the dividing partnership transfers its assets to the resulting partnerships for interests in the latter.
Here's how what practitioners know can help people undergoing a divorce to organize the in Formation courts use in determining support awards and dividing a marital estate.
Prescalers reduce the phase noise of the RF signal by approximately 20log(n), where n is the dividing ratio, as long as the added phase noise of the prescalers is negligible relative to that of the RF signal.
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Joe eventually solves the problem by dividing the bug squadron into five rows, which evenly divides the twenty-five bugs in the squadron and eliminates the remainder of one.
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