indivisible

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PIE word
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indivisible (not comparable)

Incapable of being divided; atomic.
- 1695, C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, translated by John Dryden, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC:
  one indivisible point of time
- 2014 [2013 June 13], Jinping Xi, “Handle Cross-Straits Relations in the Overall Interests of the Chinese Nation”, in The Governance of China‎^[1], volume I, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [2]:
  Although the mainland and Taiwan are yet to be reunited, they belong to one and same China, which is an indivisible whole.
(arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.

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

incapable of being divided

incapable of being divided by a specific integer

indivisible (plural indivisibles)

That which cannot be divided or split.
- 1644, Kenelm Digby, Two Treatises:
  By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies.
- 1661, Joseph Glanvill, chapter V, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Vanity of Dogmatizing […] (Series III: Philosophy; 6), New York, N.Y.: For the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1931, →OCLC, page 53:
  The compoſition of Bodies, whether it be of Diviſibles or Indiviſibles, is a queſtion which must be rank'd with the Indiſſolvibles: For though it hath been attempted by the moſt illuſtrious Wits of all Philoſophick Ages; yet they have done little elſe, but ſhewn their own diviſions to be almoſt as infinite, as ſome ſuppoſe thoſe of their Subject.
(geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.