indivisible
/ɪndɪˈvɪzɪb(ə)l
/adjective
1Unable to be divided or separated: privilege was indivisible from responsibility...
- The sovereign power is indivisible; it cannot for instance be divided between king and parliament.
- Today art is indivisible from culture, culture from heritage, heritage from tourism.
- Whether or not one agrees with the political position of the party is not the point, but freedom of speech is indivisible: you have it or you do not.
1.1(Of a number) unable to be divided by another number exactly without leaving a remainder.The last sequence is of course the sequence of prime numbers, the indivisible numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one.
Derivatives
indivisibility
/ noun ...- I got sick to the back teeth hearing about America is the greatest nation on earth, especially in the context of equality and indivisibility.
- Global warming too easily serves as a metaphor for our common humanity and the indivisibility of the species in a fragmented world.
- Connected with this issue is the debate contrasting indivisibility (all human rights are equal in importance) with hierarchy (some rights are more important than others).
indivisibly
/ adverb ...- Outlining its 10 lessons for Government, the Trust says the epidemic showed that the health of farming and the prosperity of rural areas were indivisibly linked.
- For one afternoon, at least, it was grievously simple: Britons and Americans gathered, indivisibly, to mourn a shared massacre.
- Here they are bound indivisibly by a set of ideas.
Origin
Late Middle English: from late Latin indivisibilis, from in- 'not' + divisibilis (see divisible).
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