• Redivider

    Alternative forms

    • re-divider

    Origin

    en + -redivide + er

    Full definition of redivider

    Noun

    redivider

    (plural redividers)
    1. Agent noun of redivide: something that divides or apportions again.
      • The communes are still very real, of course, but their organs serve primarily as communications conduits and allocations redividers.
    2. (puzzles) A sequence of letters that can be segmented into two or more different sentences
      • Latter-day puzzle makers in a direct lineage from Carroll’s tradition and even more extreme instances of segmentation oddities in what are called redividers (Michaelsen, 1998), for example, observing that the sentence “In every ode linger many” can be resegmented to read “I never yodel in Germany” (Shortz, 1997); such cases serve to point out the duality of the problems of gap assignment and boundary detection, and also inject a combinatorial flavor.

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