DIVIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does divided mean? 

• DIVIDED (adjective)
  The adjective DIVIDED has 3 senses:

1. separated into parts or pieces

2. having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions

3. distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose

  Familiarity information: DIVIDED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIVIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separated into parts or pieces

Context example:

opinions are divided

Similar:

two-pronged (having two prongs)

trifid (divided into three lobes)

torn (disrupted by the pull of contrary forces)

three-pronged (having three prongs)

segmental (divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds)

sectional; sectioned (consisting of or divided into sections)

pronged; tined (having prongs or tines; usually used in combination)

pentamerous (divided into five parts; specifically, having each floral whorl consist of five (or a multiple of five) members)

mullioned (of windows; divided by vertical bars or piers usually of stone)

metameric; segmental; segmented (having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters)

many-chambered (having many chambers)

four-pronged (having four prongs)

episodic (of writing or narration; divided into or composed of episodes)

disjunct (having deep constrictions separating head, thorax, and abdomen, as in insects)

disjointed (taken apart at the joints)

disconnected; disunited; fragmented; split (having been divided; having the unity destroyed)

dichotomous (divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications)

bisulcate; cloven ((used of hooves) split, divided)

cleft (split or divided)

chambered (having compartmental chambers)

black-and-white (of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories)

bilocular; biloculate (divided into or containing two cells or chambers)

bifurcated (divided into or made up of two parts)

bifurcate; biramous; branched; forficate; fork-like; forked; pronged; prongy (resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches)

bifid (divided into two lobes)

bicameral; two-chambered (consisting of two chambers)

Also:

separate (independent; not united or joint)

segregated; unintegrated (separated or isolated from others or a main group)

distributive (serving to distribute or allot or disperse)

Antonym:

united (characterized by unity; being or joined into a single entity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having a median strip or island between lanes of traffic moving in opposite directions

Synonyms:

divided; dual-lane

Context example:

a divided highway

Similar:

multilane ((of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Distributed in portions (often equal) on the basis of a plan or purpose

Synonyms:

divided; divided up; shared; shared out

Similar:

distributed (spread out or scattered about or divided up)

 Context examples 

The trough concentration at steady state divided by the trough concentration during the initial dosing interval.

(Accumulation Ratio Ctrough, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by body mass index.

(Amount Recovered from T1 to T2 Normalized by Body Mass Index, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum concentration at steady state divided by the minimum concentration during the initial dosing interval.

(Accumulation Ratio Cmin, NCI Thesaurus)

The maximum concentration at steady state divided by the maximum concentration during the initial dosing interval.

(Accumulation Ratio Cmax, NCI Thesaurus)

Radiation treatment in which the total dose of radiation is divided into small doses and the treatments are given more than once a day.

(Accelerated-fraction radiation therapy, NCI Dictionary)

The area under the curve (AUCTAU) at steady state divided by the area under the curve over the initial dosing interval.

(Accumulation Ratio Area Under the Curve, NCI Thesaurus)

The cumulative amount recovered from the specimen type specified in PPSPEC over the interval from T1 to T2 divided by surface area.

(Amount Recovered from T1 to T2 Normalized by Surface Area, NCI Thesaurus)

The area under the curve (AUC) from the time of dosing to the time of the last observation divided by the dose, regardless of whether the last concentration is measurable or not.

(AUC All Normalized by Dose, NCI Thesaurus)

MEN2 syndrome is caused by a mutation (change) in a gene called RET, and is divided into three subtypes (MEN2A, MEN2B, and FMTC).

(MEN2 syndrome, NCI Dictionary)

A dose calculation unit expressed in micrograms per milliliter, divided by milligram per kilogram.

(Microgram Per Milliliter Per Milligram Per Kilogram, NCI Thesaurus)