divider

English

Etymology

PIE word
*dwóh₁

From divide +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪdə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

divider (plural dividers)

1. One who or that which divides or separates.
   • 1891, George MacDonald, A Rough Shaking, page 33:

     I was greatly his inferior, but love is a quick divider of shares: he that gathers much has nothing over, and he that gathers little has no lack.

   1. A physical object for dividing up a space.
      • 1980, Robert M. Jones, editor, Walls and Ceilings, Time-Life Books, →ISBN, page 58:

        It is perfectly possible to separate one area of a room from another, or even to create an entirely new room, with a lightweight room divider that assembles with a minimum of fuss.

   2. A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
   3. An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
2. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
3. The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.

Derived terms

• checkout divider
• current divider
• dividerless
• hair divider
• inductive voltage divider
• room divider
• voltage divider
• word divider

 

Translations

object that separates

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: مُقَسِّم m (mugassim)

• Bulgarian: разделител m (razdelitel), сепаратор m (separator)
• French: séparateur (fr) m, intercalaire (fr) m (separator used to divide sheets of paper)
• German: Trennwand (de) f, Teiler (de) m
• Italian: divisore (it) m
• Malay: pembahagi (ms)
• Plautdietsch: Schetzel n
• Polish: przekładka f
• Romanian: ro n
• Spanish: separador m
• Turkish: pergel (tr)

person who separates

• Italian: divisore (it)
• Malay: pembahagi (ms)

median of a highway

• Finnish: keskikaide
• French: terre-plein (fr) m
• Italian: spartitraffico (it)
• Malay: pembahagi (ms)

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

divider

1. imperative of dividere