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A self-contained part of a larger composition
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subdivision
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in 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. A part of a thing made by subdividing. In the decimal table, the subdivision of the cubit, as span, palm, and digit, are ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE new ▪ They later moved to a new subdivision in south Arlington. ▪ That money will allow the Growth Lobby to make sure new subdivisions have something to flush. ■ VERB build ▪ In their place, developers are building ...
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.