Sentence examples for division of quantities from inspiring English sources

So, in the first instance, we can ask: does Aristotle intend his division of Quantity to be a division of quantities or quantified things?

Following Aristotle's division of quantities into continuous and discrete quantities (Cat. 6), medieval philosophers divide the integral whole into continuous integral wholes and discrete integral wholes.

That is, there are many circumstances in which the organism of greater fitness has the propensity to leave fewer immediate offspring than the organism of lower fitness; as when for example, the larger number of a bird's chick all die owing to the equal division of a quantity of food which would have kept a smaller number viable.

The process of cell division requires large quantities of structural materials and consumes energy, while cell expansion requires large quantities of solutes and water.

According to this division of the Food and Drug Administration, the quantity of latex gloves imported into the United States has increased by 247percentt over the last decade; in 1996, the last year for which figures are available, 62percentt of those gloves came from Malaysia.

And what of quantities of wine?

The traditional division of labor among policy makers was that the Fed determined the quantity of money in the economy — it set monetary policy — and Congress decided precise government expenditures — it handled fiscal policy.

The division of property?

Wrigley Jr. division of Mars.

A division of the United Nations?

division of the I.R.T. subway.