Divisible

/dəˈvɪzəbəl/

/dɪˈvɪzɪbəl/

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If something is divisible, it can be evenly split into sections. Your list of personal pet peeves might be divisible into areas you think of as: annoying people, annoying sounds, and terrible food.

A pizza is easily divisible into an even number of slices, and your family's rural land might be divisible into smaller parcels for you and your siblings to build cabins on some day. In math, a number is divisible by a smaller number when the division process leaves no remainder: for example, 36 is divisible by 6. Divisible shares a Latin root with divide, dividere, "to force apart or distribute."

Definitions of divisible

adjective
capable of being or liable to be divided or separated

“even numbers are divisible by two”

“the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible”

synonyms:
cleavable
capable of being cleaved

dissociable, separable, severable
capable of being divided or dissociated

dissociative
tending to produce dissociation

dividable
can be divided usually without leaving a remainder

partible
(of e.g. property) capable of being parted or divided

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antonyms:
indivisible
impossible to split into parts

indiscrete
not divided or divisible into parts

indivisible by, undividable
cannot be divided without leaving a remainder

inseparable
not capable of being separated

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