(verb.) divide into smaller and smaller pieces; 'This apartment cannot be subdivided any further!'.
(verb.) form into subdivisions; 'The cells subdivided'.
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双语例句
His command was subdivided into four departments, but the commanders all reported to Sherman and were subject to his orders. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
The radius is divided into sixty equal parts, and these again divided and subdivided sexage simally. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Each compartment is partially subdivided, and so there are two tolerably distinct parties of four in it. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It was easy to see what the thing needed: it wanted to be subdivided. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
About every fifteenth address plate in a drawer was equipped with a vertical, subdividing tab--numerical, alphabetical or geographical as the case might require. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
In the Old World, scientists generally still declared the impossibility of subdividing the electric-light current, and in the public press Mr. Edison was denounced as a dreamer. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Farmer subdivides Electric Current through a number of Electric Lamps, and lights first dwelling by Electricity. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.