divisible
Americanadjective
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capable of being divided.
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Mathematics.
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capable of being evenly divided, without remainder.
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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.
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adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of divisible
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
Explanation
If something is divisible, it can be evenly split into sections. Your list of personal pet peeves might be divisible into areas you think of as: annoying people, annoying sounds, and terrible food. A pizza is easily divisible into an even number of slices, and your family's rural land might be divisible into smaller parcels for you and your siblings to build cabins on some day. In math, a number is divisible by a smaller number when the division process leaves no remainder: for example, 36 is divisible by 6. Divisible shares a Latin root with divide, dividere, "to force apart or distribute."
Vocabulary lists containing divisible
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Example Sentences
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Speaking of poetry, musician and poet Kae Tempest's collection titled Divisible By Itself and One asks how can we be true to ourselves while under constant pressure to conform.
From BBC • Dec. 26, 2022
Divisible by 2, 3, 5, 6, 10 387.
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
Divisible substance is incompatible with the first predicates of Deity, namely, immateriality and infinity.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
For certainly the quantity or extension of any body may be Divisible in infinitum, though perhaps not the matter.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert
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