divisor
noun
a number by which another number, the dividend, is divided.
divisors
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pluralof divisor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A prime number is a number that has exactly two distinct divisors: itself and 1.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 15, 2018
In practice divisors, will have degrees less than or equal to the degree of .
From Textbooks ● Feb. 13, 2015
Prime numbers are still divisible by themselves and by 1, of course, but they have no other divisors.
From Scientific American ● May 23, 2013
The videos were each about 10 minutes long and contained two elements: his blackboard-style diagrams—Khan happens to be an excellent sketcher—and his voice-over explaining things like greatest common divisors and equivalent fractions.
From BusinessWeek ● May 19, 2011
The stipulation as to "no more" was not necessary in the case of my puzzle, for no smaller number has more than sixty-four divisors.
From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney
