divide and conquer

Etymology
From Latin divide et impera.

Verb

 * 1) 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.

Translations

 * Arabic: فَرِّق تَسُد
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: rozděl a panuj
 * Danish: del og hersk
 * Dutch: divide et impera, deel en heers, verdeel en heers
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: teile und herrsche
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: deila og drottna
 * Italian: dividi e domina
 * Japanese: 分割統治
 * Korean: 분열시킨 뒤에 정복한다
 * Latin: divide et impera
 * Polish: dziel i rządź
 * Portuguese: dividir e conquistar
 * Russian: разделя́й и вла́ствуй
 * Serbo-Croatian: завади па владај
 * Slovene: deli in vladaj
 * Spanish: divide y conquista, divide y vencerás
 * Swedish: söndra och härska

Noun

 * 1) A strategy for achieving political or military control.
 * 2)  An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems are trivial.
 * The quicksort algorithm is an example of divide and conquer.

Proverb

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