divisible

[ dih-viz-uh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being divided.
2. Mathematics.
   1. capable of being evenly divided, divide, without remainder.
   2. of or relating to a group in which given any element and any integer, there is a second element that when raised to the integer equals the first element.

divisible

/ dɪˈvɪzəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being divided, usually with no remainder

Derived Forms

• diˈvisibly, adverb
• diˈvisibleness, noun

Other Words From

• di·visi·ble·ness noun
• di·visi·bly adverb
• nondi·visi·ble adjective
• undi·visi·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of divisible¹

1545–55; (< Anglo-French ) < Late Latin dīvīsibilis, equivalent to Latin dīvīs ( us ), past participle of dīvidere to divide ( dī- di- ² + vīd- (variant stem) + -tus past participle suffix) + -ibilis -ible

Example Sentences

Now leap years divisible by 100, like the year 1900, are skipped unless they're also divisible by 400, like the year 2000, in which case they're observed.

From National Geographic

But what Hokusai and his successors affirm over and over is that there’s no such thing as a pure “culture” divisible from others — not even the culture of a shogunate whose subjects couldn’t leave on pain of death.

From New York Times

Upon being reminded of its initial answer, ChatGPT offered a daft explanation, including a claim that “we cannot use 1, 4, or 6 as the first digit of a three-digit prime, as the resulting numbers would be divisible by 3.”

From Scientific American

This is patently false: you can recognize numbers divisible by 3 because their digits total a number divisible by 3.

From Scientific American

In 1987, for example, the military government in Burma issued new bank notes whose face value was a number divisible by nine.

From Literature