subdivide

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++sub·di·vide /ˌsʌbdəˈvaɪd/ verb [transitive] SEPARATEto divide into smaller parts something that is already divided 把〔分过的东西〕再分，细分 Over time, developers subdivided the land. 开发商们渐渐地把这块土地进行了再分割。subdivide something into something The house was subdivided into apartments. 房子又被分割成几个套间。→ See Verb table

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subdivide• The madness here is that it does not matter what we organize, what we number, what we subdivide.• The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided, although little of its eastern half lay within the trench.• A simple spinner using a pentatonic scale might be subdivided into five symmetrically weighted sectors.• Rocks can be subdivided into types on the basis of texture.• These categories are then subdivided or classified, so as to create more manageable groups that can later be analyzed.• A simple solution is to subdivide the 900-pixel matrix into nine 10-by-10 matrices.• Helper furnishes a list of floods and another of wrecked ships, subdividing the latter into steamers and sailing vessels.• County councils, moreover, frequently subdivided their territory for administrative purposes.• William Heath Davis, who subdivided this portion of San Diego in 1850, reserved the block for a federal courthouse.