dividing

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Chemistry advances to its end by dividing, sub-dividing, and again sub-dividing, and we do not know what will be the limits of such operations.

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  • In the years ahead Faith and Order will address potentially church-dividing issues relating to biblical interpretation, theological anthropology, religious pluralism, mutual recognition of baptism, and other aspects of ecclesiology.
  • One of my earliest garden memories is of helping my grandfather dig up the canna bulbs in the fall and trimming, dividing, and storing them for winter. —  Blisstree
  • For some reason the East River -- dividing Manhattan from Queens and Brooklyn -- seems small enough that a halfway-in-shape person with a good running start could leap over it (this is not true). —  Starpulse Entertainment News
  • Most adult cells, in contrast, if they can divide at all, can only create cells of the same type -- that is, a dividing skin cell can only create another skin cell. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • These animals also multiply by dividing, and thus liberate another series, which, in their turn, reproduce other groups Generation requires the concurrence of stimuli and susceptibility_, and, to perfect the process, two conditions are also necessary. —  The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
 

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