Dividers

Japanese: ディバイダー
Dividers
Dividers are a device similar to a compass with two prongs used in drafting and surveying maps to divide lines. A split compass. ※Collision Course (1961) by Yasukuni Takahashi, Vol. 3 "Set squares, dividers , and the binding of incredibly thick black-covered reports."

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Japanese:
〘名〙 (dividers) 製図・測図で、線の分割などに用いる二本の脚針をもったコンパスに似た器具。割りコンパス。※衝突針路(1961)〈高橋泰邦〉三「三角定規、両脚器(デバイダー)、それに恐ろしく厚い黒表紙の調書の綴込みなど」

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