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.

A strategy for achieving political or military control.

In order to rule securely, do not allow alliances between your enemies.

(politics) Synonym of divide and conquer

(US) A dual carriageway

(information technology, sociology) The gap between those with regular, effective access to digital technologies and those without it.

plural of digital divide

plural of dividing engine

(historical) An instrument for graduating the scales of scientific apparatus.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of divide and conquer