divisor (pluraldivisors)
- (arithmetic) In anexpression involvingdivision, the number by which another number is beingdivided.
In "42 ÷ 3" thedivisor is the 3.
- Aninteger that divides another integer anintegral number of times, the former being called adivisor of the latter.
10 is adivisor of 100, but not of 101.
The positivedivisors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6.
- (algebra, more generally) Aringelement which can be multiplied (by some other ring element) to yield a third ring element, the first being called adivisor of the third. If the ring isnoncommutative, then one specifies whether a divisor isleft,right, ortwo-sided.
- (mathematics, algebraic geometry)Any of several kinds offormal object associated to analgebraic variety,scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that ofhomology orcohomology groups in the study oftopological spaces.
- (in the study ofRiemann surfaces) An element of thefreeabelian group on thepoints of the space.
- (on avariety (orintegrallocally Noetherianscheme)) AWeil divisor: an element of the free abelian group on thecodimension-1 subvarieties (or subschemes).
- (on avariety (orintegralNoetherianscheme)) ACartier divisor; see
Cartier divisors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
arithmetic: a number or expression
integer that divides another integer an integral number of times
Other terms used inarithmetic operations:
Advancedhyperoperations:tetration,pentation,hexation
Borrowed fromLatindīvīsōrem.
divisor m (pluraldivisors)
- (arithmetic)divisor(number that another is to be divided by)
divisor c (singular definitedivisoren,plural indefinitedivisorer)
- (number theory)divisor
dīvīsor m (genitivedīvīsōris);third declension
- divider
- distributor (especially of bribes)
Third-declension noun.
- “divisor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “divisor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "divisor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- divisor inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “divisor”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “divisor”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Borrowed fromLatindīvīsōrem.
divisor m (pluraldivisores)
- (arithmetic)divisor
FromLatindivisor.
- IPA(key): /dibiˈsoɾ/[d̪i.β̞iˈsoɾ]
- Rhymes:-oɾ
- Syllabification:di‧vi‧sor
divisor (femininedivisora,masculine pluraldivisores,feminine pluraldivisoras)
- dividing
divisor m (pluraldivisores)
- (arithmetic)divisor(number that another is to be divided by)
