as in separable
capable of being split into two or more parts or pieces
easily divisible into enough pieces for everyone
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Recent Examples of divisible
Even Swift's original Eras Tour lineup had 52 stops and, as stated above, the number is divisible by 13.
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Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 13 Dec. 2024
Newman also found that some age databases contain unusual numbers of people born on the first day of the month or on dates divisible by five, suggesting many of these birth dates are fabricated.
—science.org, 21 Nov. 2024
In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values that are only divisible by themselves and one.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Just as molecules are composed of atoms, in math, every natural number can be broken down into its prime factors—those that are divisible only by themselves and 1.
—Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
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Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 13 Dec. 2024
Newman also found that some age databases contain unusual numbers of people born on the first day of the month or on dates divisible by five, suggesting many of these birth dates are fabricated.
—science.org, 21 Nov. 2024
In the 17th century, French monk and mathematician Marin Mersenne developed a method to find prime numbers: values that are only divisible by themselves and one.
—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
Just as molecules are composed of atoms, in math, every natural number can be broken down into its prime factors—those that are divisible only by themselves and 1.
—Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 29 July 2024
See All Example Sentences for divisible
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“Divisible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divisible. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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