divisional

adjective

Definition of divisionalnext
as in local

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divisional
  1. local
  2. regional
  3. fragmentary
  4. partial
  5. sectional
  6. component
Adjective
  • Muhoozi swings a sandbag during one of his regular training sessions at a local gym in Jinja.
    Greg Presto, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
  • For the latest local updates head to LAist.com and sign up for breaking news alerts.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of local
Adjective
  • German NGOs and some companies have left X and there are calls for boycotting Tesla and X. Tesla’s gigafactory near Berlin—a product of the regional Social Democrats’ engagement, not the AfD—regularly bumps up against German regulators, and will now be ever more unlikely to get calls in its favor.
    Paul Hockenos, TIME, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The 2025 lineup will have more than 50 national, regional and local artists, including The Dave Matthews Band, pop icon Gwen Stefani and rising star Benson Boone, plus others to be announced soon.
    Chyna Blackmon, Charlotte Observer, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of regional
Adjective
  • The final chapters in the Amistad edition are fragmentary, and the book ends abruptly, ten years before Herod’s death.
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Although the trappings and structures of information-sharing have existed for years, the actual sharing of information that would help secure the external border of Europe has been fragmentary.
    Martin A. Schain, Foreign Affairs, 12 May 2016
Definition of fragmentary
Adjective
  • Ode to Lucy’s Pelvis Adrienne Gruber O wondrous one, your bipedal swag, terrestrial locomotion, partial appendages revealed, brain a soft sponge, size of an acorn, still waiting for that growth spurt 3.2 million years later.
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And a partial wall, which may have been destroyed in the past or simply started and never finished, would bring the total fortified area to around 80 hectares.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of partial
Adjective
  • Put out an entire sectional sofa with hide-away bed.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Best Choice Upholstered Sectional Sofa This best-selling sectional sofa can comfortably seat up to three people, according to users.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 28 Nov. 2024
Definition of sectional
Adjective
  • And as Golosio and his team knew, an ANN designed around a multi-component working memory model could be a powerful tool for processing and creating human-like communication.
    Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2015
  • Perceptual convergence of multi-component mixtures in olfaction implies an olfactory white.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2012
Definition of component
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division

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