divisible

[dih-viz-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being divided.

2. Mathematics.

   1. capable of being evenly divided, divide, without remainder.

   2. of or relating to a group in which given any element and any integer, there is a second element that when raised to the integer equals the first element.

divisible

/ dɪˈvɪzəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being divided, usually with no remainder

Other Word Forms

• divisibly adverb
• divisibleness noun
• nondivisible adjective
• undivisible adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of divisible¹

1545–55; (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin dīvīsibilis, equivalent to Latin dīvīs ( us ), past participle of dīvidere to divide ( dī- di- ² + vīd- (variant stem) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

Newman also found that some age databases contain unusual numbers of people born on the first day of the month or on dates divisible by five, suggesting many of these birth dates are fabricated.

From Science Magazine

This is patently false: you can recognize numbers divisible by 3 because their digits total a number divisible by 3.

From Scientific American

Three was a good number, as was any number divisible by it.

From Literature

What if we no longer thought of the world as so blithely divisible?

From New York Times

At the same time, he wondered whether his own logic was faulty, since he based his arguments on geometry, whose infinitely divisible lines automatically reject atomism.

From Literature