divisor

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪ.zə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: dĭ-vīʹ-zər, IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪ.zɚ/

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  • Homophone: diviser
• Rhymes: -aɪzə(ɹ)

divisor (plural divisors)

1. (arithmetic) In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided.

   In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.

2. An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.

   10 is a divisor of 100, but not of 101.

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

   1. (algebra, more generally) A ring element which can be multiplied (by some other ring element) to yield a third ring element, the first being called a divisor of the third. If the ring is noncommutative, then one specifies whether a divisor is left, right, or two-sided.
3. (mathematics, algebraic geometry) Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
   1. (in the study of Riemann surfaces) An element of the free abelian group on the points of the space.
   2. (on a variety (or integral locally Noetherian scheme)) A Weil divisor: an element of the free abelian group on the codimension-1 subvarieties (or subschemes).
   3. (on a variety (or integral Noetherian scheme)) A Cartier divisor; see Cartier divisors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

• Vidrios, viroids

Borrowed from Latin dīvīsōrem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [di.βiˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [di.viˈzo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [di.viˈzoɾ]

divisor m (plural divisors)

1. (arithmetic) divisor (number that another is to be divided by)

• dividir

• “divisor”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

divisor c (singular definite divisoren, plural indefinite divisorer)

1. (number theory) divisor

From dīvīdō + -tor.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [diːˈwiː.sɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [diˈviː.s̬or]

dīvīsor m (genitive dīvīsōris); third declension

1. divider
2. distributor (especially of bribes)

Third-declension noun.

• “divisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “divisor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "divisor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “divisor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “divisor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “divisor”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Borrowed from Latin dīvīsōrem.

• Hyphenation: di‧vi‧sor

divisor m (plural divisores)

1. (arithmetic) divisor
2. divider (physical object for dividing up a space)

divisor (feminine divisora, masculine plural divisores, feminine plural divisoras)

1. dividing

• “divisor”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “divisor”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin divisor.

• IPA^(key): /dibiˈsoɾ/ [d̪i.β̞iˈsoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: di‧vi‧sor

divisor (feminine divisora, masculine plural divisores, feminine plural divisoras)

1. dividing

divisor m (plural divisores)

1. (arithmetic) divisor (number that another is to be divided by)

• “divisor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025