Machine used to mark off equal intervals accurately, usually on precision instruments. Georg Friedrich von Reichenbach (1772-1826), a German maker of astronomical instruments, designed an early dividing engine, and Jesse Ramsden (1735-1800), a British pioneer in the design of precision tools, designed dividing engines of great accuracy for both circles and straight lines and produced highly accurate sextants, theodolites (see surveying), and vertical circles for astronomical observatories
The dividing line between two areas is the boundary between them. people on both sides of the dividing line between Israel and the occupied territories. the difference between two similar things dividing line between
A dividing line is a distinction or set of distinctions which marks the difference between two types of thing or two groups. There's a very thin dividing line between joviality and hysteria
A chain of mountains curving along the eastern coast of Australia. Main watershed of eastern Australia. It comprises a series of plateaus and mountain ranges roughly paralleling the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, Austl. Beginning in the north on the Cape York Peninsula, Queen., the range heads south to become the Australian Alps near the New South Wales-Victoria border. Bending west in Victoria, the range ends in the Grampians, while a southern spur emerges from the Bass Strait to form the central uplands of Tasmania. The range stretches for 2,300 mi (3,700 km). First traversed in 1813 by Europeans moving into the Australian Outback, the region is now important for agriculture, lumbering, and mining, and national parks attract tourists