indivisible

From Middle French indivisible, from Late Latin indivisibilis

indivisible (not comparable)

1. Incapable of being divided; atomic.
   • Dryden

     one indivisible point of time

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

• unsplittable

• (incapable of being divided; arithmetic): divisible
• (incapable of being combined): incombinable, uncombinable, unmergeable, ununifiable

• indivision
• indivisibility
• indivisibleness
• indivisibly
• individual

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. That which cannot be divided or split.
   • Joseph Glanvill

     The composition of Bodies, whether it be of Divisibles or Indivisibles, is a question which must be rank'd with the Indissolvibles […]

   • Digby

     By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies.

2. (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.

• method of indivisibles

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.vi.zibl/

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indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

• divisible
• incombinable

• “indivisible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

indivisible m or f (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

1. indivisible

• divisible
• incombinable