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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Subdivision \Sub`di*vi"sion\, n. [L. subdivisio: cf. F. subdivision.]
The act of subdividing, or separating a part into smaller parts.
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A part of a thing made by subdividing.
In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are deduced from the shorter cubit.
--Arbuthnot.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "process of dividing into smaller parts;" mid-15c., "portion of land that has been divided," noun of action from subdivide. Sense of "plot of land broken into lots for housing development" is from 1911.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable uncountable English) a division into smaller pieces of something that has already been divided; to separate something 2 (context countable English) such a piece that has been divided 3 (context countable English) a parcel of land that has been divided into lots 4 (context countable English) a group of houses created by the same builder or in the same general area
WordNet
n. an area composed of subdivided lots
the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided
an administrative division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress" [syn: branch, arm]
a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" [syn: section]
a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided [syn: subsection]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Subdivision may refer to:
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Administrative subdivision, a portion of a country or other political division, established for the purpose of government
- Subdivision (land), a term for an urban or suburban area, especially if recently parceled up into smaller plots for new uses
- Census geographic units of Canada (Census subdivision), a term used in Canada
- Subdivision (country subdivision), a designation for some specific subdivisions
- A 3rd level administrative government equivalent to a tehsil in some states in India and Pakistan, and in parts of Pakistan the tehsil (as 4th level) lies within the Sub-Division.
- Subdivision (meter), a term for division of the beat in music
- Subdivision (botany), a taxonomic rank below a phylum and equivalent to a subphylum
- Subdivision (rank), a taxonomic rank
- Subdivision (film), starring Gary Sweet
- Subdivision (graph theory), mathematics
- "Subdivision" (Prison Break episode), the twenty-eighth episode of American television series Prison Break
- "Subdivisions" (song), by the rock group Rush
- Subdivisions (EP), an EP consisting of re-interpretations of songs from Clearing the Channel (2005)
- Subdivision surface, a term in computer graphics
- Trackage, specifically a named section (North American usage)
Subdivision is feature film, which was released on 20 August 2009 throughout Australia.
Subdivision is a designation for an administrative country subdivision in India.
For details see Subdivisions of India.
Category:Types of country subdivisions
Subdivision is the act of dividing land into pieces that are easier to sell or otherwise develop, usually via a plat. The former single piece as a whole is then known in the United States as a subdivision. If it is used for housing it is typically known as a housing subdivision or housing development, although some developers tend to call these areas communities.
Subdivisions may also be for the purpose of commercial or industrial development, and the results vary from retail shopping malls with independently owned out parcels, to industrial parks.
Usage examples of "subdivision".
Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells.
THE ORGANS OF RESPIRATION are the Trachea, or windpipe, the Bronchia, formed by the subdivision of the trachea, and the Lungs, with their air-cells.
The subdivisions were gone, replaced by mile after mile of industrial parks: the automated genomics and proteomics labs spread like gray-green lithops, soaking up the last of the sunlight.
It seemed as if minute sectarian division and subdivision was to be forced upon American Christianity as a law of its church life.
Of these subdivisions the chief are those of the Ob, Yenisei, Lena, and Amur basins.
Taras evenly spaced on manicured quarter-acre lots, was so pristine its planners had succumbed to anglophilia and named the subdivision Nottingham Forest.
And it is suggested as not improper that in constructing a loyal State government in any State the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the constitution, and the general code of laws as before the rebellion be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions hereinbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said co and which may be deemed expedient by those framing the new State government.
She slid inside then drove slowly away from the huge medical center and north to US 59 which led to the Kingwood subdivision on the northern outskirts of Houston.
There had been plans once for a renovation, but that was back before the Kingwood subdivision had been annexed by the city of Houston.
Alfred Tylor soon after his paper on the growth of trees and protoplasmic continuity was read before the Linnean Society - that is to say, in December, 1884 - and I proposed to make the theory concerning the subdivision of organic life into animal and vegetable, which I have broached in my concluding chapter, the main feature of the book.
The mods tried to ignore them, but the norms had a good angle and cut them off before they could reach the subdivision.
The other two subdivisions of the Musci are each represented by a single genus.
It is, however, by no means clear that the neocortical subdivisions are actually functional units.
This does not mean that there are 1,024 even subdivisions of prints according to these primaries.
Some taxonomists employ further subdivisions: tribe, suborder, infraorder, parvorder, and more.