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# subdivision

«subdivision» in Mova's school dictionary: **a smaller part made when something already divided is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a subdivision, subdivisions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A subdivision is a smaller part made when something already divided is divided again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#m1)

2) Subdivision is the act of dividing something into smaller parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#m2)

3) (US, Canada, Australia, NZ) A subdivision is an area of land divided into plots where new houses are built, a housing estate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Maths: on a ruler, centimetres are subdivided into millimetres; scales and number lines have subdivisions, so you count each small mark carefully. Geography: a county or district is a subdivision of a country or state. Everyday life (North America, Australia, NZ): «They live in a new subdivision».

### examples

- Each centimetre has ten subdivisions called millimetres. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x1)
- A county is a subdivision of a country. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x2)
- They bought a house in a new subdivision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x3)
- Count the subdivisions between 0 and 1 on the scale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x4)
- The farm was sold for subdivision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x5)
- Chapters have subdivisions called sections. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/#x6)

### note

Countable. Verb: subdivide. Maths tip: if there are 5 spaces (subdivisions) between 0 and 10, each space is worth 2, not 1 — count spaces, not lines.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «subdivision» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/subdivision/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.