common divisor

American  

noun

Mathematics.

1. a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.

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common divisor British  

noun

1. another name for common factor

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common divisor Scientific  

1. A number that is a factor of two or more numbers. For example, 3 is a common divisor of both 9 and 15.

2. Also called common factor

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Etymology

Origin of common divisor

First recorded in 1840–50

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Example Sentences

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common divisor

There is a mathematical explanation for the auditory illusion in my example, sometimes called the missing fundamental: The perceived pitch is the greatest common divisor of the frequencies of the sine waves present.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 24, 2018

There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown.

From Time Magazine Archive

The reader probably never has had occasion to compute a greatest common divisor since he left school.

From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike

The Executive is the greatest common divisor of a diverse society.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

Totitive, tot′i-tiv, n. a number less than another having with it no common divisor but unity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

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