Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being divided, especially with no remainder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of division; that may be separated or disunited; consisting of separable parts or elements: as, a line is divisible into an infinite number of points.
- In arithmetic, capable of division without remainder: as, 100 is divisible by 10.
- noun That which is susceptible of division.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A divisible substance.
- adjective Capable of being divided or separated.
- adjective (Law) a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other.
- adjective (Law) an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can be a conviction.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
divided or split. - adjective arithmetic Of an
integer , that, whendivided by another integer, leaves noremainder . - noun Any substance that can be divided.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being or liable to be divided or separated
Etymologies
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Examples
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The vessel is usually described as divisible into parts, according to the regions which it traverses.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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You’re assuming Gaza is divisible from the West Bank, so that it can be treated separately from the West Bank.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Telling Interview with the Director of Amnesty Israel 2010
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The perinaeum, Fig. 3, Plate 50, is, for surgical purposes, described as divisible into two spaces (anterior and posterior) by a transverse line drawn from one tuber ischii, D, to the other, D, and crossing in front of the anus.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
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It's exactly this kind of divisible flag-waving, "patriotic" rhetoric that has gotten us in the mess we're in the first place, isn't it?
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It's exactly this kind of divisible flag-waving, quote-on-quote "patriotic" rhetoric that has gotten us in the mess we're in the first place, isn't it?
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Here we may say that the predicate used to describe to collective is 'divisible'; that is, it is applicable to the members of the collective taken singly.
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Where there are "divisible" predicates, it seems to me as though we could follow the individualists in saying that to do so would bring about more precision.
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It's the notion that one's public and private lives are divisible sort of like separation of church and state, and that one's privacy ought to be inviolable.
Theories, Holes Included Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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“Jazmine, I will give you a number and you tell me if it is divisible by three, six, seven, or some of those, or none.”
Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011
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The issue with real estate is that a desk is not as divisible as, say, a dollar.
Josh Sawislak: Show Me the (Telework) Money Josh Sawislak 2012
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