Meaning & use
divisible
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capable of being divided, especially into equal parts or by a particular number without leaving a remainder
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Twelve is divisible by two, three, four, and six.
The committee argued that the territory was not easily divisible along ethnic lines.
A note on using this word
Most familiar from arithmetic ('divisible by'), but also used more broadly for anything that can be split or partitioned.
Words with a similar meaning
separable
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Words with an opposite meaning
indivisible
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