单词 | divisible |
释义 | divisible (once / 3353 pages) adj 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." WORD FAMILYdivisible: divisibility, divisiblest, indivisible+/dividable: undividable/divide: dividable, divided, divider, divides, dividing, divisible, division, subdivide/divided: dividedly, undivided/divider: dividers/division: divisional, divisions/divisional: divisionally/indivisible: indivisibly/subdivide: subdivided, subdivider, subdivides, subdividing, subdivision/subdivided: unsubdivided/subdivider: subdividers/subdivision: subdivisions/undivided: undividedly USAGE EXAMPLESIt could be a conceptual label on a dance for two, a divisible number. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) He chose those denominations because both numbers are divisible by nine, and their digits add up to nine—Ne Win’s lucky number. Economist(Nov 10, 2016) But the grace of Kay’s voice is hypnotizing, and there are moments when her empathy for Stephen makes them seem barely divisible. New York Times(Oct 24, 2016) adj 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 Syn|Ant cleavable capable of being cleaved dissociable, separable, severablecapable of being divided or dissociated dissociativetending to produce dissociation dividablecan be divided usually without leaving a remainder partible(of e.g. property) capable of being parted or divided indivisible impossible of undergoing division indiscretenot divided or divisible into parts indivisible by, undividablecannot be divided without leaving a remainder inseparablenot capable of being separated |
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