redivider
redivider noun: a sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences. Also the agent noun of redivide.
Noun
redivider (plural redividers)
- A sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences
- Latter-day puzzle makers in a direct lineage from Carroll’s tradition and even more extreme instances of segmentation oddities in what are called redividers (Michaelsen, 1998), for example, observing that the sentence “In every ode linger many” can be resegmented to read “I never yodel in Germany”...2001, David B. Searls, “From Jabberwocky to Genome: Lewis Carroll and Computational Biology”, in Journal of Computational Biology, volume 8, number 3, page 344
Also used as
redivider is also the agent noun of redivide.
Forms of redivider
| plural | redividers |
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Origin of redivider
From redivide + -er.
Questions about redivider
- What does redivider mean?
- Redivider means a sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences.
- What part of speech is redivider?
- Redivider is a noun.
- What is the plural of redivider?
- The plural of redivider is redividers.
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