How to Use divisor in a Sentence

divisor

noun

• The dividend yield overall won’t change, but the dividend per share may be reduced by the same divisor as the split.
  — Lee Clifford, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2022
• S&P Dow Indices, which oversees the Dow, changed the divisor used to generate the index's total.
  — David Goldman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2020
• For example, for long division, students used colored pencils to match the strokes of the divisor in the dividend.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2022
• This works out because the only improper divisor of a number is the number itself.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Mar. 2021
• Using that new divisor, life expectancy will be reduced by one each year.
  — Julie Jason, Jd, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Due to a robust and growing reserve fund, the bill cuts the divisor that determines the base rates for unemployment insurance tax from 1.5 to 1.3.
  — Betsy Z. Russell, idahostatesman, 23 Jan. 2018
• Keep cycling through this basic routine, adjusting n at each step and ratcheting up the divisor, until the result of the division is less than 2—then you’re done.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 3 Jan. 2020
• One flaw with using return on equity as the measure is that the numbers look better when a company’s debt is high (and therefore its equity, the divisor in the equation, is low).
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2021
• The revision came after a dispute about what number to use as the divisor in calculating averages.
  — Mike Cason, AL.com, 25 July 2017
• Lowering the divisors will cost $139.5 million, Mackey said.
  — al, 13 Sep. 2019
• While not directly correlated to class size, lower divisors mean more teachers, which ultimately lowers class sizes, Mackey said.
  — al, 13 Sep. 2019
• The divisor in the calculation of the index is adjusted periodically when corporate actions occur, or when companies are added or subtracted from the index.
  — By Lucas Bucl, kansascity, 18 Sep. 2017
• Dreyer began the lesson by writing an estimating quotient example involving a two-digit divisor on the whiteboard and asked students to raise their hand and share their observations, including possible paths to solving the problem.
  — cleveland, 18 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024