Definitions

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  • noun A Roman numeral representing five hundred and four (504).
  • noun mathematics (computing) a function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers
  • noun short for divergence; a kind of differential operator
  • noun slang A foolish person; an idiot.
  • noun web design A section of a web page, or the div HTML element which represents it in computer code.
  • noun UK divinity, mainly used by schoolchildren.

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Examples

  • 以下の例ではdetach () を使っているので、DOM要素は削除されますが、detachする前に設定したイベントや$. dataにデータは残っています。 var $div = $ ( '#foo'); var div = $div. get (0);

    はてなブックマーク - 人気エントリー 2010

  • i like it so much, but i need a little help here, in the title div i can place a text box and a button in order to send the image in the lightbox via email, but i cant use javascript to show and hide the panel that contains the txtbox and the btn ? any help !

    Lightbox using mootools and pathfusion multibox 2008

  • Because I gave the div an id, I can send text to this div from the code behind page.

    ASP.NET Forums sunnyan 2008

  • Because I gave the div an id, I can send text to this div from the code behind page.

    ASP.NET Forums 2008

  • Each circle is actually an element called a "div" - an element into which the page is divided - which contains an instruction in its associated piece of CSS3 to make it circular rather than square or rectangular.

    Colorful Balls, Dots Replace Google Logo Today: Here's Why (VIDEO) 2010

  • Each circle is actually an element called a "div" - an element into which the page is divided - which contains an instruction in its associated piece of CSS3 to make it circular rather than square or rectangular.

    LAist 2010

  • For the original meaning of the word is "shining one", and it comes from a primitive Aryan root div, which is likewise the source of the Greek

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Div-us, which only signifies Genius, God of the second order, appears to me to come from the oriental word div substituted for dib, wolf and chacal, one of the emblems of the sun.

    The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

  • This is done by calling the div method of the GMap object.

    LXer Linux News 2009

  • For example most developers who program in C# or php use the following naming convention: Say you want to call a div you have created "My Example Div", the way to do this in industry standard terms would be to start the name with a lowercase word then separate each word by capitalizing the first letter of each separate word.

    بالاترین webbi 2009

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  • Possibly short for divvy.

    October 22, 2007

  • An important operator in vector calculus, for which one of the canonical texts is H.M. Schey's "Div, grad, curl, and all that : an informal text on vector calculus".

    October 22, 2007