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English
Etymology
From Middle French indivisible, from Late Latin indivisibilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
indivisible (not comparable)
- Incapable of being divided; atomic.
2014 [2013 June 13], Jinping Xi, “Handle Cross-Straits Relations in the Overall Interests of the Chinese Nation”, in The Governance of China, volume I, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page :Although the mainland and Taiwan are yet to be reunited, they belong to one and same China, which is an indivisible whole.
- (arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.
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incapable of being divided
incapable of being divided by a specific integer
Noun
indivisible (plural indivisibles)
- 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 for Henry Eversden , →OCLC; reprinted in The Vanity of Dogmatizing (Series III: Philosophy; 6), New York, N.Y.: For the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931, →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.
- (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
indivisible (plural indivisibles)
- indivisible
- Antonyms: divisible, incombinable
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Middle French
Adjective
indivisible m or f (plural indivisibles)
- indivisible
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin indivisibilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /indibiˈsible/
- Rhymes: -ible
- Syllabification: in‧di‧vi‧si‧ble
Adjective
indivisible m or f (masculine and feminine plural indivisibles)
- indivisible
- Antonyms: divisible, incombinable
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