division
noun
the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
self-division
-
a word derived from
division.
Example Sentences
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They may also multiply by a process of self-division.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 21, 2021
Is all the writhing and the agony, all the violent self-division, the schizophrenia of an old self dying, a new self being born?
From Time Magazine Archive
Inheritance must be looked at as merely a form of growth, like the self-division of a lowly-organised unicellular plant.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
It reproduces itself, as we have seen, by separation and self-division.
From A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by William Walker Atkinson
It is characteristic of this group of organic forms that multiplication by self-division is the common and continuous method of increase.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various
