indivisible

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English

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Etymology

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PIE word
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From Middle French indivisible, from Late Latin indivisibilis.

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indivisible (not comparable)

  1. Incapable of being divided; atomic.
  2. (arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.

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Noun

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indivisible (plural indivisibles)

  1. That which cannot be divided or split.
    • 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
      By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies.
    • 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter V, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. [], London: [] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden [], →OCLC, page 53:
      The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.
  2. (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.

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French

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indivisible (plural indivisibles)

  1. indivisible
    Antonyms: divisible, incombinable

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Middle French

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Adjective

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indivisible m or f (plural indivisibles)

  1. indivisible

Spanish

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Etymology

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From Latin indivisibilis.

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  • IPA(key): /indibiˈsible/ [ĩn̪.d̪i.β̞iˈsi.β̞le]
  • Rhymes: -ible
  • Syllabification: in‧di‧vi‧si‧ble

Adjective

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indivisible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indivisibles)

  1. indivisible
    Antonyms: divisible, incombinable

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