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divider Electronics an electrical circuit with an output that is a well-defined fraction of the given input divider [də′vīd·ər] (design engineering) A tool like a compass, used in metalworking to lay out circles or arcs and to space holes or other dimensions. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| And although they are dexterous enough upon a piece of paper, in the management of the rule, the pencil, and the divider, yet in the common actions and behaviour of life, I have not seen a more clumsy, awkward, and unhandy people, nor so slow and perplexed in their conceptions upon all other subjects, except those of mathematics and music. Now, take one of the points of these dividers and let it rest upon that place beyond which the most daring explorers have scarcely gone. In the centre of the upper table, were placed two chairs more elevated than the rest, for the master and mistress of the family, who presided over the scene of hospitality, and from doing so derived their Saxon title of honour, which signifies ``the Dividers of Bread. |
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