divisible

[ dih-viz-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being divided.
2. Mathematics.
   1. capable of being evenly divided, divide, without remainder.
   2. of or relating to a group in which given any element and any integer, there is a second element that when raised to the integer equals the first element.

divisible

/ dɪˈvɪzəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being divided, usually with no remainder

Derived Forms

• diˈvisibleness, noun
• diˈvisibly, adverb

Other Words From

• di·visi·ble·ness noun
• di·visi·bly adverb
• nondi·visi·ble adjective
• undi·visi·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of divisible¹

1545–55; (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin dīvīsibilis, equivalent to Latin dīvīs ( us ), past participle of dīvidere to divide ( dī- di- ² + vīd- (variant stem) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

The task is easily divisible into portions, so you always know exactly what fraction of the task is left.

From FiveThirtyEight

The same is true for the National Archives, Office of Presidential Personnel and Office of Personnel Management who are buried in years easily divisible by four.

From Time

Mathematicians want to understand the sizes of collections of vertices with other numeric properties in common — like large groups of vertices, none of which is connected to a number of other vertices that’s evenly divisible by 3 or 5.

From Quanta Magazine

You may recognize that they’re all prime — evenly divisible only by themselves and 1 — but these particular primes are even more unusual.

From Quanta Magazine

In this case, you can use the tricks you learned in school for determining if a number is divisible by a given digit.

From Quanta Magazine

It turns out that 60 is a wonderful number because it is divisible by one, two, three, four, five, and six.

From The Daily Beast

The mere fact that it divides itself, or imparts itself to others, shows that it was already divisible before the division.

From Project Gutenberg

Every year of which the figure is divisible by four is a leap-year.

From Project Gutenberg

Still another pretty stitch, easily adjusted to any garment, is as follows: Chain a number of stitches divisible by 3, turn.

From Project Gutenberg

In Denmark the peat deposits of this age are divisible into five layers, characterised by different dominant forms of trees.

From Project Gutenberg

The largest dock is divisible by a central caisson so that four ships can be docked at one time.

From Project Gutenberg