# division (process)

the act of making parts out of a whole

- Computed level: L5 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: process  ·  Arena: division

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [whole](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-whole.complete), [make](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-make.verb), [act](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed)

**Through:** make.verb separates a whole.complete into part.relation through an act.deed

**Novel properties:**
- partitioning
- emergent structure
- relational fragmentation

## Examples
- The 1947 partition of British India created India and Pakistan along religious demographic lines. *(institutions)*
- Cytokinesis in a human zygote splits one cell into two after mitosis. *(biology)*
- A compiler splits source code into executable object files during the build process. *(computing)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-division.process.json*  
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