antidivision

From anti- +‎ division.

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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.

antidivision (usually uncountable, plural antidivisions)

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 […]