Meanings
plural redividers
- agentAgent noun of redivide: something that divides or apportions again.
TRIANGLE REDIVIDER
1998, Toshiaki Takahashi et al., Navigation system, method for stereoscopically displaying topographic map for the navigation system, and recording medium for recording the method, US Patent 6121972, page 252 more examples
The communes are still very real, of course, but their organs serve primarily as communications conduits and allocations redividers.
1976, James D. Seymour, China--the Politics of Revolutionary Reintegration, page 207[…] a mark redivider that receives said second output, redivides said mark in accordance with information of said period, and stores said redivided mark; […]
1999, Mitsutoshi Arai, Pattern matching coding device using pattern matching and coding method therefor, US Patent 6445821, page 12 - puzzlesA sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences
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Latter-day puzzle makers in a direct lineage from Carroll’s tradition and even more extreme instances of segmentation oddities in what are called redividers (Michaelsen, 1998), for example, observing that the sentence “In every ode linger many” can be resegmented to read “I never yodel in Germany” (Shortz, 1997); such cases serve to point out the duality of the problems of gap assignment and boundary detection, and also inject a combinatorial flavor.
2001, David B. Searls, “From Jabberwocky to Genome: Lewis Carroll and Computational Biology”, in Journal of Computational Biology, volume 8, number 3, page 344
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