Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quantity by which another quantity, the dividend, is to be divided.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In arithmetic: A number or quantity by which another number or quantity (the dividend) is divided.
- noun A number which, multiplied by an integer quotient, gives another number of which it is said to be a divisor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Math.) The number by which the dividend is divided.
- noun (Math.) See under
Common , a.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun arithmetic A number or
expression that another is to bedivided by. - noun An
integer that divides another integer anintegral number of times.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of two or more integers that can be exactly divided into another integer
- noun the number by which a dividend is divided
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Examples
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The Producitivity Portfolio blog explains how to test to see if your divisor is 0, and if so, display a blank value using something like = IF (D2 = 0,, C2/D2).
Avoid Excel Division by Zero Errors | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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The value of this number - known as the index "divisor" - is adjusted regularly to reflect index additions and deletions, share buybacks or issuances, spinoffs and other events that affect a company's market cap.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed JOHN HEINZL 2010
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This can be done various ways mathematically, but at Dow Jones it is handled by changing the "divisor" - a number that is divided into the total of the stock prices.
Newsvine - Get Smarter Here AP Business Writer Joe Bel Bruno 2008
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/: int, int → int: safely divides two integers (returns 1 if divisor is 0)
Genetic programming in the cloud « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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The basic idea appears to be use multiple running means to identify nodal points in sunspot data, and then to use a cubic fit between points so identified as a divisor for a mean somehow determined at each data point, although it is not quite clear to me what they did from what they have written!
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He adds: "And we still divide that total to get the final number, but we use an index divisor, which is adjusted for stock splits and other corporate actions that might distort the continuity of the calculation."
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"And we still divide that total to get the final number, but we use an index divisor, which is adjusted for stock splits and other corporate actions that might distort the continuity of the calculation," Mr. Prestbo adds.
Calculating the Dow 2007
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And finally, when the election was over and it was time to settle up, a third species of criminal, the so-called divisor, would distribute it.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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And finally, when the election was over and it was time to settle up, a third species of criminal, the so-called divisor, would distribute it.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Open and click-through rates declined marginally, because the divisor is the number delivered, not the number sent.
ClickZ News 2009
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