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dividing

dividing adjective: serving to divide or separate. Also the present participle and gerund of divide.

Adjective

dividing (not comparable)

  1. Serving to divide or separate.
    • We installed a dividing wall in order to create two rooms out of one.

Noun

dividing (plural dividings)

  1. An act of division.
    • Hence the noun also means dividing, or portion as that which is divided — whether an inheritance, or whether the dividings of spoil after battle.1840, Albert Barnes, Notes: Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Also used as

dividing is also the present participle and gerund of divide.

dividing meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi

dividing in Malayalam

വിഭജിക്കൽ

dividing in Kannada

ವಿಭಜಿಸುವುದು

dividing in Punjabi

ਵੰਡਣਾ

Forms of dividing

pluraldividings

Words formed from dividing

Phrases with dividing

Words that rhyme with dividing

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Questions about dividing

What does dividing mean?
Dividing means serving to divide or separate.
What is dividing in Malayalam?
Dividing in Malayalam is വിഭജിക്കൽ. See Dividing meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is dividing?
Dividing can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near dividing in the dictionary

  1. divides
  2. divides and conquers
  3. divides up
  4. dividest
  5. divideth
  6. dividing
  7. dividing and conquering
  8. dividing engine
  9. dividing engines
  10. dividing line
  11. dividing lines

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dividing (page history and authors); dividing (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dividing (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); dividing (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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