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English Dictionary: divisible by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
divisible
adj
  1. capable of being or liable to be divided or separated; "even numbers are divisible by two"; "the Americans fought a bloody war to prove that their nation is not divisible"
    Antonym(s): indivisible
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf.
      F. divisible. See {Divide}.]
      Capable of being divided or separated.
  
               Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. --Sir
                                                                              W. Hamilton.
  
      {Divisible contract} (Law), a contract containing agreements
            one of which can be separated from the other.
  
      {Divisible offense} (Law), an offense containing a lesser
            offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the latter
            there can be an acquittal, while on the former there can
            be a conviction. -- {Di*vis"i*ble*ness}, n. --
            {Di*vis"i*bly}, adv.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, n.
      A divisible substance. --Glanvill.
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