A combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy
Applied to various algorithms, such as quicksort, that solve a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial
{f} separate in order to control, keep a people or enemy separated into small groups in order to dominate them and prevent effective resistance, win by making one's opponents to fight between themselves