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
Primes are whole numbers that are greater than 1 and are divisible by only 1 and themselves.
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Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
In Zeno’s paradox, for instance, a tortoise gets a head start in a race with Achilles, who will never catch up to the tortoise if the race is defined in terms of the distance between them, which is infinitely divisible into ever smaller slices.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Cracking the code to prime numbers, figures only divisible by one and itself, means access to any computer across the globe.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 16 June 2025
In Zeno’s paradox, for instance, a tortoise gets a head start in a race with Achilles, who will never catch up to the tortoise if the race is defined in terms of the distance between them, which is infinitely divisible into ever smaller slices.
—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Cracking the code to prime numbers, figures only divisible by one and itself, means access to any computer across the globe.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
Then list all the numbers that aren’t divisible by those primes.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for divisible
separable
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In the United States, the Consumer Product Safety Commission introduced a mandatory safety standard in 2022 that limits the power of loose or separable magnets in products designed for purposes such as entertainment and stress relief.—
Hanna Park,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Despite these insights, across political differences, people strive for and continue to demand scientific objectivity: the idea that science should be unbiased, rational and separable from cultural values and beliefs.—
Sara Giordano,
The Conversation,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Divisible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/divisible. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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