divisible

Any substance that can be divided.

Adjective

  1. Capable of being divided or split.
    • Near-synonyms: separable, separatable

    Synonyms: dividable splittable partible separable separatable

    Antonyms: indivisible nondivisible undividable

    Coordinate Terms: combinable mergeable unifiable

    1. (arithmetic) Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.

      • Just as 12 is divisible by 3, so is 48 divisible by 12.

      Synonyms: dividable splittable partible separable separatable evenly divisible

      Antonyms: indivisible nondivisible undividable

      Coordinate Terms: combinable mergeable unifiable

Origin

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.

Synonyms

divisible discerpible partible scissile separable splittable

Antonyms

combinable indivisible mergeable unifiable

Related

divisibility separation separate divide

Derived

divisibleness divisibly evenly divisible nondivisible polydivisible subdivisible undivisible

Noun

  1. Any substance that can be divided.
    • The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick...

Forms

divisibles