What is "divisors"

Usage examples of "divisors".

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.

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).