Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The capacity of being divided or separated into parts.
- noun In arithmetic, the capacity of being exactly divided—that is, divided without remainder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun arithmetic The property of being
divisible by a particularinteger .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being divisible; the capacity to be divided into parts or divided among a number of persons
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Examples
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In the second place, though matter, considered as the occult cause of our sensations, do really exist, yet what we call divisibility may be an attribute only of our sensations of sight and touch, and not of their uncognizable cause.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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Divisibility Test An aid in determining whether a natural number is divisible by another natural number is called a divisibility test.
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Divisibility Test An aid in determining whether a natural number is divisible by another natural number is called a divisibility test.
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Valla's idea is that notions such as divisibility and quantity are properly at home only in the world of ordinary things.
Lorenzo Valla Nauta, Lodi 2009
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Commodities which barbarians can consume immediately are objects of the first necessity, whereas more civilized people, who are in a condition to undergo greater expense, look more to the technic qualities of money, such as divisibility, capacity for transportation and durability. _v.
System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855
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Mushroom would have to remain its more manageable intriguing self, a word calling out to be loved for its divisibility.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Mushroom would have to remain its more manageable intriguing self, a word calling out to be loved for its divisibility.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Economists declare that money must adhere to at least three rules acceptability, divisibility and limited in quantity.
Stalag 18A 2010
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Publishing new writing by way of contests implies a certain metaphysical attitude--the model privileges randomness, divisibility, fragmentation, unknowability, and nondeterminism, perfected and ground through a process of rationalization to the presumed opposite of these conditions.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
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Publishing new writing by way of contests implies a certain metaphysical attitude--the model privileges randomness, divisibility, fragmentation, unknowability, and nondeterminism, perfected and ground through a process of rationalization to the presumed opposite of these conditions.
Anis Shivani: Poetry Book Contests Should be Abolished: Why Contests Are the Stupidest Way to Publish First Books Anis Shivani 2011
oroboros commented on the word divisibility
A two-cadence word.
May 23, 2008