‘the marine environment is divisible into a number of areas’
‘The Chechens are divisible into several tribes, and intertribal tensions are a part of Chechnya history.’
‘These scruples of mine are divisible into three points, which I shall, for your convenience, set out in a list.’
‘I think the term for payment being divisible into small particles is ‘frangibility’.’
‘Each superfamily is clearly divisible into two to four distinct families on the basis of conserved elements in the precursor sequences.’
‘According to the Geological Survey Team of Tibet, who surveyed the area and measured the studied section, the Juripu Formation is divisible into 12 units.’
‘Now a line is extended and Leibniz held that extension is a form of repetition, so, a line, being divisible into parts, cannot be a unity.’
‘Herrnstein's and Murray's argument depends on thinking of the 15-point IQ difference as divisible into a genetic chunk and an environmental chunk.’
‘The appendage is divisible into three parts - a broad proximal section where it joins the theca then a median section tapering to narrower distal section.’
‘Zen schools are more or less divisible into those that emphasize a curriculum of verbal meditation objects - like koans - and those that do not.’
‘Lirabuccinum is divisible into two morphologic groups.’
‘Surrounding the atrium is a structured grid that is divisible into a series of 100-square-foot rooms.’
‘It becomes clear then that the relationships between plants and humans is such that plants as a whole are not obviously divisible into either wild or cultivated.’
‘Familiar accounts of epistemic terms seem to be divisible into those that employ only clearly naturalistic terms and those that do not.’
‘In other words, the tenant's estate was somehow divisible into two portions, only one of which was extinguished by the squatter's adverse possession.’
‘In contrast to the classification by overstory, the seven forests were not divisible into groups using the understory taxa.’
‘It is divisible into three sections with soundproof partitions.’
‘Twentieth century crinoid studies are divisible into four periods.’
‘These clans are then divisible into subclans, smaller family groups called lineages, and diyah groups.’
‘The body itself is not divisible into neatly - organized tagmata or regions as it is in most other arthropods.’
‘Undergirding these laws is the ontological premise that space is divisible into state-owned sovereign units.’
divisible, distinguishable, distinct, independent
2Mathematics (of a number) containing another number a number of times without a remainder.
‘24 is divisible by 4’
‘How can you tell whether a number is divisible by another number (leaving no remainder) without actually doing the division?’
‘Every fourth number is divisible by 4, so there won't be more than three in a row in this bin.’
‘The question boils down to how many states are needed to test whether a certain number is divisible by another, given number.’
‘In particular, if the remainder is 0, the original number is divisible by 9.’
‘To this effect, consider a hypernatural K in * N that is divisible by every natural number.’
Origin
Late Middle English from late Latin divisibilis, from divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere (see divide).
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