divisible
Plural: divisibles
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"
Adj
- Capable of being divided or split.
- Capable of being divided or split.
- Of an integer, that, when divided by another integer, results in another integer still, thus leaving no remainder.
Noun
- Any substance that can be divided.
Examples
- Just as 12 is divisible by 3, so is 48 divisible by 12.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English divisible, from Old French, from Late Latin divisibilis, from the verb Latin divido.
Synonyms
discerpible, dividable, divisible, evenly divisible, partible, scissile, separable, splittable
Antonyms
indivisible, combinable, mergeable, nondivisible, undividable, unifiable
Scrabble Score: 15
divisible: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddivisible: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
divisible: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary