All 3 Uses of
dividend
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Six and a half per cent dividend.†
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- …by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.†
Chpt 17 (definition 1) *
- …by cohesion of molecular affinity in a single pinhead: of the universe of human serum constellated with red and white bodies, themselves universes of void space constellated with other bodies, each, in continuity, its universe of divisible component bodies of which each was again divisible in divisions of redivisible component bodies, dividends and divisors ever diminishing without actual division till, if the progress were carried far enough, nought nowhere was never reached.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (dividend as in: dividend paid by stock) that part of the earnings of a corporation that is distributed to its shareholders
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(2) (dividend, divisor & quotient in math) an amount to be divided
(if 8 divided by 4 = 2, then 8 can be described as the dividend, 4 as the divisor, and 2 as the quotient)