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The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

apparatus for comparing and grading the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner. From the fine gold I separate the alloy. Dryden. Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen. xiii. 9. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ Rom. viii. 35.

Divided by partition or partitions; having septa; as, a septate pod or shell.

Flowing sevenfold; divided into seven streams or currents. [R.] Fuller.

Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

ns; -- said of a method of dehiscence in which a pod splits through the partitions and is divided into its component carpels.

Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of seven equal parts into which anything is divided; as, the seventh part. Seventh day, the seventh day of the week; Saturday. -- Seventh-day Baptists. See under Baptist.

The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.

To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something; to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body. The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. Matt. xiii. 49.

r interest owned by a number; a portion among others; an apportioned lot; an allotment; a dividend. "My share of fame." Dryden.

One who shares; a participator; a partaker; also, a divider; a distributer.

tters a boiler; an oak is shattered by lightning. A monarchy was shattered to pieces, and divided amongst revolted subjects. Locke.

ision, in the Isle of Man, in which there is a coroner, or chief constable. The island is divided into six sheadings.

To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

To separate; to divide. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Robert of Brunne.

To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. Chaucer.

A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding. --Shunt"-wound` (#), a.