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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DIVIDING

ppr. 1. Parting; separating; distributing; disuniting; apportioning to each his share.
2. a. That indicates separation or difference; as a dividing line.

DIVIDING

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

DIVIDING

DIVIDING Di *vid "ing, a.

Defn: That divides; separating; marking divisions; graduating. Dividing engine, a machine for graduating circles (as for astronomical instruments ) or bars (as for scales ); also, for spacing off and cutting teeth in wheels. -- Dividing sinker. (Knitting Mach. ). See under Sinker.

DIVIDINGLY

DIVIDINGLY Di *vid "ing *ly, adv.

Defn: By division.

New American Oxford Dictionary

dividing line

di vid ing line |dəˈvaɪdɪŋ laɪn | ▶noun the boundary between two areas: the dividing line between eastern and western zones. • a distinction or set of distinctions marking the difference between two related things: the dividing line between drama and reality.

Oxford Dictionary

dividing line

div |id ¦ing line ▶noun the boundary between two areas. • a distinction or set of distinctions marking the difference between two things that are closely related: the smudged dividing line between drama and reality.