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common divisor

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. a number that is a submultiple of all the numbers of a given set.


common divisor

noun

  1. another name for common factor
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common divisor

  1. A number that is a factor of two or more numbers. For example, 3 is a common divisor of both 9 and 15.
  2. Also called common factor


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Word History and Origins

Origin of common divisor1

First recorded in 1840–50
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Example Sentences

Totitive, tot′i-tiv, n. a number less than another having with it no common divisor but unity.

The reader probably never has had occasion to compute a greatest common divisor since he left school.

Divide the number of harness into two parts, which must neither be equal nor have a common divisor.

The greatest common divisor of all the elements in the nation's political consciousness today is inevitably a Mr. Harding.

The Executive is the greatest common divisor of a diverse society.

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