antidivision

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

anti- +‎ division

Adjective[edit]

antidivision (not comparable)

  1. Opposing or countering geopolitical division.
    • 1968, Herbert Samuel Schell, History of South Dakota:
      Much of the northern antidivision sentiment in 1887 was rooted in the fear that statehood for the southern half alone might doom the north to indefinite territorial status.

Noun[edit]

antidivision (uncountable)

  1. (algebra) A particular extension of the antijoin operator.
    • 2008, Patrick Bosc, Olivier Pivert, A Family of Tolerant Antidivision Operators for Database Fuzzy Querying Book Series:
    • 2008, Sergio Greco, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Scalable uncertainty management:
      It can be noticed that an antidivision is nothing but an antijoin followed by a projection over X []