Usually means: Splitting problems, solving parts independently.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. divide and conquer: Merriam-Webster
  2. divide and conquer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. divide and conquer: Wiktionary
  4. Divide and Conquer (Inhumans), Divide and Conquer (Stargate SG-1), Divide and Conquer (Teen Titans), Divide and Conquer (film), Divide and Conquer (newsreel), Divide and conquer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Divide and conquer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Divide and conquer: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. divide and conquer: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Divide and conquer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Divide and conquer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. divide and conquer: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mathematical Programming (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Divide and Conquer: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (divide and conquer)

verb:  To use a combination of political, military and economic strategies that aim to gain and maintain power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
noun:  A strategy for achieving political or military control.
noun:  (computer science) An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.
noun:  A phacoemulsification technique in which the nucleus is grooved and divided into halves.

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