noun
definition
Any substance that can be divided.
adjective
definition
Capable of being divided or split.
definition
Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, leaves no remainder.
example
12 is divisible by 3.
Examples of divisible in a Sentence
This is divisible into the districts of Samaria and Judaea.
The body is often divisible into regions.
They are divisible into three parts, the Lower Coal Measures, the middle or Pennant, a mass of sandstone containing some coals, and the Upper Coal Measures, also containing workable coal.
This latter, which is his "capital," is divisible into the two classes of "fixed" and "circulating."
The body proper is usually divisible into two regions to which the names thorax and abdomen are applied.
In fact, so far as the direct evidence of our senses tells us, matter appears to be indefinitely divisible.
Its body is divisible into three portions, an upper capitulum bearing the mouth and tentacles, a median scapus covered by a friable cuticle, and a terminal physa which is rounded.
The remaining forms, the Actiniidea, are divisible into the Malacactiniae, or soft-bodied sea-anemones, which have !already been described sufficiently in the course of this article, and the Scleractiniae (= Madreporaria) or true corals.
When now we pass to geometrical measurement, each " one " is a thing which is itself divisible, and it cannot be said that at any moment we are counting it; it is only when one is completed that we can count it.
Then, if this difference is zero or is divisible by 7, II or 13, the original number is also so divisible; and conversely.
For example, 31521 gives 521 -31 = 49 0, and therefore is divisible by 7, but not by II or 13.
They are divisible into two groups, an African and an Asiatic, both of which are generally included in the sub-genus, or genus, Bubalus, although the latter are sometimes separated as Buffelus.
The former should be regarded as asserting that the whole is, not temporally, but logically, subsequent to the part, and that therefore there is an infinite regress in the notion of a whole which is infinitely divisible - a view which at any rate demands a serious refutation.
Finally, the last paradox may be interpreted as a valid refutation of the doctrine that space and time are not infinitely divisible.
They are divisible into two great series, according to their mode of origin in the sea or in fresh-water.
Fermat's Theorem, if p is prime and a is prime to p then a p-1 -1 is divisible by p, was first given in a letter of 1640.
Knowledge is regarded as a mechanical product, part furnished by the subject, part given to the subject, and is thus viewed as mechanically divisible into a priori and a posteriori, into pure and empirical, necessary and contingent.
The materials used in the construction of furnaces are divisible into two classes, namely, ordinary and refractory or fire-resisting.
Parity and ECC memory modules have a chip count divisible by three or five.
Now we are looking for squares of all numbers divisible by 4, hence squares of even numbers.
Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being divisible into parts that are infinitely divisible into parts that are infinitely divisible.
The geometric continuum is infinitely divisible; segments, no matter how small or how large, can arise.
A data unit is properly aligned if its address is evenly divisible by the data unit's size in bytes.
Where the proposed numbers are not easily divisible the lower number of double rooms will normally be acceptable " .
Conversely, he argues that corporeal things, however small, are always divisible.
In the above example the number of teeth on the orange gear is not divisible by the number of teeth on the blue gear.
Their view was that "matter is not indefinitely divisible, but that all substances are formed of indivisible particles or atoms which are eternal and unchangeable, that the atoms are separated from one another by void, and that these atoms, by their combinations, form the matter we are conscious of."
This method of classification, though formally accurate, has slight value in the exact sciences, partly because at every step one of the two groups is merely negatively characterized and therefore incapable of real subdivision; it is useful, however, in setting forth clearly the gradual descent from the most inclusive genus (summum genus) through species to the lowest class (infima species), which is divisible only into individual persons or things.
The polyp usually has the body distinctly divisible into hydranth, hydrocaulus and hydrorhiza, and is usually clothed in a perisarc. The medusae may be set free or may remain attached to the polyp-colony and degenerate into a gonophore.
They are divisible into the Haplodrili or Archiannelida, the Polychaeta containing the marine worms, the Oligochaeta or terrestrial and fresh-water annelids (see Earthworm), the Hirudinea or leeches (see Leech), and a small group of parasitic worms, the 11-Tyzostomida (q.v.).
In correspondence with these four aspects of its subject, biology is logically divisible into four chief subdivisions - I.
The Suidae are divisible into the true Old World swine (Suinae) and the American peccaries (Dicotylinae).
The body is divisible into a proboscis and a trunk with sometimes an intervening neck region.
In the first, all affection phenomena are primarily divisible into those which are pleasurable and those which are the reverse.
It is divisible into two well-marked periods - the first extending to the end of the 12th century and embracing as its chief names Roscellinus, Anselm, William of Champeaux and Abelard, while the second extended from the beginning of the 13th century to the Renaissance and the general distraction of men's thoughts from the problems and methods of Scholasticism.
Then the assumption is that, whatever positive integral value n may have, n [P] is divisible by p!.
Therefore, if (n-i) 1P+11 is divisible by (p+I)!, 'n 1P+11 is divisible b y (p +i) !.
The white population is broadly divisible into the British and Dutch elements, the percentage of other whites in 1904 being but 8.6.
On the continent of Europe it is customary to consider coal as divisible into two great classes, depending upon differences of colour, namely, brown coal, corresponding to the term "lignite" used in England and France, and black or stone coal, which is equivalent to coal as understood in England.
The ego and non-ego limit one another, or determine one another; and, as limitation is negation of part of a divisible quantum, in this third act, the divisible ego is op-posed to a divisible non-ego.
Meanwhile, the same considerations had not been applied to time, so that in the days of Zeno of Elea time was still regarded as made up of a finite number of ` moments,' while space was confessed to be divisible without limit.
These particles, however, would be still divisible by their own nature, because the Deity cannot diminish his own power, and therefore must retain his power of dividing them.
A school committee consisting of any number of members divisible by three is chosen, one-third each year, at the annual town-meeting or at a special meeting which is held in the same month.
Smith conceived the entire subject he had to treat in his public lectures as divisible into four heads, the first of which was natural theology, the second ethics, the third jurisprudence; whilst in the fourth "he examined those political regulations which are founded upon expediency, and which are calculated to increase the riches, the power, and the prosperity of a state."
The mouth leads at once into the true digestive cavity, divisible into an oesophageal region in the manubrium and a more dilated cavity, the stomach (st.), occupying the centre of the umbrella.
Now, As The Year Consists Of 365 Days And A Fraction, And 365 Is A Number Not Divisible By 12, It Is Impossible That The Months Can All Be Of The Same Length And At The Same Time Include All The Days Of The Year.
The family is divisible into two sub-families, of which the first, or Sminthinae, is represented only by the genus Sminthus, containing a few species which range from Denmark into Western Asia, Kashmir and China.
Solutions of colloids in solvents such as water and alcohol seem to be divisible into two classes.
The inhabitants are roughly divisible into two types - Arabs in the plains and Nubas in the hills.
The population is generally divisible into I The fellahin or peasantry and the native townsmen.