divisible

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divisible - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, a. [L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf.
     F. divisible. See Divide.]
     Capable of being divided or separated.
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           Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. --Sir
                                                    W. Hamilton.
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     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.
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  Divisible \Di*vis"i*ble\, n.
     A divisible substance. --Glanvill.
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divisible - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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" [ant: indivisible]

divisible - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  DIVISIBLE. The susceptibility of being divided. 
       2. A contract cannot, in general, be divided in such a manner that an 
  action may be brought, or a right accrue, on a part of it. 2 Penna. R. 454. 
  But some contracts are susceptible of division, as when a reversioner sells 
  a part of the reversion to one man, and a part to another, each shall have 
  an action for his share of the rent, which may accrue on a contract, to pay 
  a particular rent to the reversioner. 3 Whart. 404; and see Apportionment. 
  But when it is to do several things, at several times, an action will lie 
  upon every default. 15 Pick. R. 409. See 1 Greenl. R. 316; 6 Mass. 344. See 
  Entire.