divisible

From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.

• (UK) IPA^(key): [dɪˈvɪzɪbəɫ]

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divisible (not comparable)

1. Capable of being divided or split.
2. (arithmetic) Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, leaves no remainder.

   12 is divisible by 3.

• disunitable
• splittable

• (antonym(s) of “all meanings”): indivisible, non-divisible
• (antonym(s) of “capable of being divided”): combinable, mergeable, unifiable

• divisibility
• separable

divisible (plural divisibles)

1. Any substance that can be divided.
   • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter V, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Vanity of Dogmatizing […] (Series III: Philosophy; 6), New York, N.Y.: For the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931, →OCLC, page 53:

     The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.

Borrowed from Latin dīvīsibilis.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.βiˈzib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.viˈzib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [di.viˈzi.ble]

divisible m or f (masculine and feminine plural divisibles)

1. divisible (capable of being divided)

   Antonym: indivisible

2. (arithmetic) divisible (of an integer, that when divided leaves no remainder)

• divisibilitat

• “divisible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin dividō.

• IPA^(key): /di.vi.zibl/

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divisible (plural divisibles)

1. divisible

• divisibilité

• diviser
• division

• “divisible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin dīvīsibilis.

• IPA^(key): /dibiˈsible/ [d̪i.β̞iˈsi.β̞le]

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• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: di‧vi‧si‧ble

divisible m or f (masculine and feminine plural divisibles)

1. divisible (capable of being divided)

   Antonym: indivisible

2. (arithmetic) divisible (of an integer, that when divided leaves no remainder)

• “divisible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014