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The number by which a dividend is divided
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divisor
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In algebraic geometry , divisors are a generalization of codimension -1 subvarieties of algebraic varieties . Two different generalizations are in common use, Cartier divisors and Weil divisors (named for Pierre Cartier and André Weil by David Mumford ). ...
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n. one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer; "what are the 4 factors of 6?" [syn: factor ] the number by which a dividend is divided
Usage examples of divisor.
The teacher was covered with chalkdust and the blackboards were covered with simple additions and subtractions, by multiplicands, multipliers, and products, by dividends, divisors, and quotients.
This same number, viewed a bit differently, was a special element in the set of positive integers, being a mathematically perfect number, equal to the sum of its divisors.
Notation by sixty also had the advantage over the decimal system in all work involving fractions because sixty has more divisors than ten.
For example, six is the first "perfect" number, equal to the sum of its divisors (1 + 2 + 3).
This common divisor he found to be 1 - 1440 of a dollar, or 1 - 1600 of the crown sterling.
What their ignorance left out of account -- and mine too, which saw no reply to their objection -- was a technical breakthrough he'd recently achieved and was about to put to use: a precision honing device he called the Infinite Divisor.
In that equation, Vretha, you are a divisor, a liability, because the Visionists have managed to put your face on their attacks.