Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Divider

Divider , noun

1.
One who, or that which, divides; that which separates anything into parts.
2.
One who deals out to each his share.
Who made me a judge or a divider over you? — Luke xii. 14
3.
One who, or that which, causes division.
Hate is of all things the mightiest divider. — Milton
Money, the great divider of the world. — Swift
4.
An instrument for dividing lines, describing circles, etc., compasses. See Compasses.

The word dividers is usually applied to the instrument as made for the use of draughtsmen, etc.; compasses to the coarser instrument used by carpenters.

The structure may be a wall with an opening in it to allow seeing one part of the room from the other. This term is also used to designate a semitransparent curtain formed by hanging multiple strings of various materials from a ceiling, intended to visually partition a room without inhibiting passage between the partitions

5.
a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another).