divider

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One that divides, especially a screen or other partition.
2. n. Chiefly British A highway median strip.
3. n. A device resembling a compass, used for dividing lines and transferring measurements.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who or that which divides; that which separates into parts.
2. n. A distributer; one who deals out to each his share.
3. n. One who or that which disunites or keeps apart.
4. n. plural A pair of small compasses, of which the opening is adjusted by means of a screw and nut, used for dividing lines, describing circles, etc.; compasses in general. See compass, 8.
5. n. An attachment to a harvester for separating the swath of grain on the point of being cut from the portion left standing.
6. n. plural In mining, same as buntons.

Wiktionary

1. n. An object that separates.
2. n. A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
3. n. UK, US The median of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
4. n. A person who separates or classifies.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
2. n. One who deals out to each his share.
3. n. One who, or that which, causes division.
4. n. An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.
5. n. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a person who separates something into parts or groups
2. n. a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
3. n. a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
4. n. a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)