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
During the life of the plant this process of self-division is continued with an almost incredible rapidity.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
That cells, still retaining the same nature, increase by self-division or proliferation, is admitted by almost every one.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Charles Darwin
They progagated themselves by self-division, or by "proliferation" of minutes granules or atoms, which, when properly nourished, again multiplied by self-division, and grew to the likeness of the parent cells.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton
