Divide

Articles concerning Divide include:

In Geography:

  • Drainage divide or watershed, a ridge of land between two drainage basins
  • Continental divide, a water divide between the drainage of two oceans
  • Continental Divide, the North American divide between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Places:

  • Divide, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Divide, Colorado, USA
  • Divide County, North Dakota, USA
  • Triple Divide Peak, in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
  • Great Divide Basin, in Wyoming, USA
  • Divide, Lane County, Oregon
  • Divide, Wallowa County, Oregon

In science:

  • Division (mathematics)
  • Divide and conquer algorithm, in computer science
  • Divide-and-conquer eigenvalue algorithm, a concept in the linear algebra branch of mathematics

In popular culture:

  • Divide, song by American hard rock band Disturbed

In sociology:

  • Divide and rule, a strategy of gaining and maintaining power
  • Digital divide, the socio-economic difference between communities in their access to computers and the Internet
  • North-South divide, between wealthy developed countries and poorer developing countries
  • Cultural divide
  • Mercedes divide, separating those who can afford a Mercedes-Benz car from those who cannot

Famous quotes containing the word divide:

    The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower.
    Audre Lorde (1934–1992)

    ... it is a rather curious thing to have to divide one’s life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one’s official duties are at an end.
    Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

    You can’t divide a business like a sack of apples.
    Edward L. Bernds (b. 1911)