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divisible
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Word definitions for divisible in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French divisibile , from Late Latin divisibilis , from divis- , past participle stem of Latin dividere (see divide (v.)).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of being or liable to be divided or separated; "even numbers are divisible by two"; "the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible" [ant: indivisible ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See Divide .] Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. --Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A prime number is a number that is not exactly divisible by any other number. ▪ Actually, Guardian letters are divisible . ▪ After examining such evidence, the Oregon court agreed with the teacher that the contract was not ...
Usage examples of divisible.
According to the Gregorian rule of intercalation, therefore, every year of which the number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the centurial years, which are only leap years when divisible by four after omitting the two ciphers.
We don't project allegories upon the ruins, so much as we restlessly traverse the bifurcations of Borgesian labyrinths: the infinitely divisible straight line suggested at the end of "Death and the Compass," or the proliferating multiplicities of "The Garden of Forking Paths.
Keeler predicted the second Prohibition, the special Vigesimal Mail election that requires that votes be mailed in on years evenly divisible by the number 22 -- which insured blacks having a chance to get the polls in the South -- a logical conclusion that I'm sure you all see.
The number 60, apart from being a multiple of 12, is evenly divisible by more integers than any lesser number, and thus was useful for dividing hours into minutes and seconds, since you could readily noodle out your fractions.
The pistil is generally divisible into the ovary or germen, the style and the stigma.