Divisor meaning

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A number used to divide another. In the equation 15 ÷ 3 = 5, 3 is the divisor.
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(arithmetic) A number or expression that another is to be divided by.

In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.

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An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times.

The positive divisors of 6 are 1, 2 and 3.

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The quantity by which another quantity, the dividend, is to be divided.
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The number or quantity by which the dividend is divided to produce the quotient.
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A number that Dow Jones & Company uses to compute the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). The value of the 30 DJIA stocks are divided by the divisor to arrive at the DJIA. The divisor changes as stock splits occur. The divisor is reported daily in the Wall Street Journal.
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Divisor Sentence Examples

  • Greatest Common Divisor 3.4.3 47.

  • Applications of simple continued fractions to the theory of numbers, as, for example, to prove the theorem that a divisor of the sum of two squares is itself the sum of two squares, may be found in J.

  • (iv.) In algebra we have a theory of highest common factor and lowest common multiple, but it is different from the arithmetical theory of greatest common divisor and least common multiple.

  • If n is a divisor of N,

  • Algebraical division therefore has no definite meaning unless dividend and divisor are rational integral functions of some expression such as x which we regard as the root of the notation (� 28 (iv.)), and are arranged in descending or ascending powers of x.

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