'divisible' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning able to be divided or separated. For example, "This cake is divisible into six equal slices."
Among these were the principles that distributive justice operates only when total funds are insufficient to meet some ideal or desired standard and that a just distribution is a just division and so presupposes a divisible good and multiple recipients.
The intellect is with eternity, above time, and is not subject to division, because everything which is divisible is divisible in magnitude, in number, or in motion, but all these kinds of division are under time.
According to the antithesis arguments, the world is infinite in both space and time (these being infinite as well), and bodies are (in accordance with the infinite divisibility of space) also infinitely divisible.
Atoms, defined as indivisible, extended particles of matter are actually divisible, and thus their very definition, taken together with the fact of their divisibility, implies a contradiction.
Astrologers advised the dictator that nine was his lucky number, and he decreed that only currency notes divisible by nine were of value.
But beside those arguments, both essentially political propaganda, there has been one of more weight: the notion that if Canada is divisible so too is Quebec, and that, were the province to break loose, such sceptical regions as its Cree and Inuit north, could stay part of Canada.That was once a fringe idea, barely taken seriously.
That may be another reason why Chinese interest rates are divisible by nine: it is seen as an auspicious number.
If a brood were to emerge in cycles divisible by a smaller number, then local predators could reap rewards by synchronising their own shorter cycles with one of the divisors.In Provence, the locals admire the joyful song of their annual cicada, la cigale.
Since prime numbers lie at the heart of cryptography, that might, eventually, make codes easier to break.In this section The spoils of war A perfect fossil Sex in season Primed to go Correction ReprintsA prime number is one that is divisible only by itself and 1.
Next year will see more efforts to rumble the scofflaws.In this section One nation, divisible An end to earmarks All economics is local Happy apple Targeting the boss An uncivil action Bluff and counter-bluff ReprintsAs with most areas of immigration policy, America's current approach is confusing and varies from state to state.
Of course, some variation is inevitable; but as the fault lines that criss-cross the country widen, finding political consensus becomes ever more difficult.In this section One nation, divisible An end to earmarks All economics is local Happy apple Targeting the boss An uncivil action Bluff and counter-bluff ReprintsIn one important respect America has a sunny demographic outlook.
