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
Clark shows in detail that there is sometimes "a compromise between self-division and budding."
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
Professor Clark holds that the old doctrine, Omne vivum ex ovo, is now virtually abandoned by all, since all admit the origin of vast numbers of animated individuals by budding and self-division.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
Mr. Galton, op. cit., pages 332-3: "There are not of a necessity two sexes, because swarms of creatures of the simplest organisations mainly multiply by some process of self-division."
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
