indivisible

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=di=vis=i=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

indivisible, a. [L. indivisibilis: cf. F. indivisible. See In- not, and Divisible.].

•  Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts.  Dryden.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable.  [1913 Webster]

indivisible, n. 

•  That which is indivisible.  [1913 Webster]

  "By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies."  [1913 Webster]
•  An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.  [1913 Webster]

Method of indivisibles, a kind of calculus, formerly in use, in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indivisible, adj.
1 not divisible.
2 not distributable among a number.

Derivative

indivisibility n. indivisibly adv.

Etymology

ME f. LL indivisibilis (as IN-(1), DIVISIBLE)

THESAURUS

indivisible

a certain, an, any, any one, atomic, austere, bare, basic, bound up in, bound up with, chaste, coherent, cohesive, either, elementary, essential, exclusive, fundamental, homely, homespun, homogeneous, impartible, inalienable, indiscerptible, indissoluble, indissolvable, individual, infrangible, infusible, inseparable, insoluble, integral, irreducible, lone, mere, monadic, monistic, monolithic, of a piece, one, plain, primal, primary, pure, pure and simple, severe, simon-pure, simple, single, singular, sole, solid, solitary, spare, stark, unadorned, unanalyzable, uncluttered, undifferenced, undifferentiated, undividable, undivided, unified, uniform, unique, unitary, whole

ROGET THESAURUS

indivisible

Whole

N whole, totality, integrity, totalness, entirety, ensemble, collectiveness, unity, completeness, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, integration, embodiment, integer, all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of, Alpha and Omega, be all and end all, complex, complexus, lock stock and barrel, bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages, trunk, torso, bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal part, main part, essential part, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, the long and the short, nearly, all, almost all, whole, total, integral, entire, complete, one, individual, unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered, unclipped, uncropped, unshorn, seamless, undiminished, undemolished, undissolved, undestroyed, unbruised, indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indiscerptible, wholesale, sweeping, comprehensive, wholly, altogether, totally, entirely, all, all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put together, in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the main, in the long run, en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily, en bloc, in extenso, throughout, every inch, substantially, tout bien ou rien.

Unity

N unity, oneness, individuality, solitude, isolation, unification, one, unit, ace, individual, none else, no other, one, sole, single, solitary, unitary, individual, apart, alone, kithless, unaccompanied, unattended, solus, single-handed, singular, odd, unique, unrepeated, azygous, first and last, isolated, insular, monospermous, unific, uniflorous, unifoliate, unigenital, uniliteral, unijocular, unimodal, unimodular, lone, lonely, lonesome, desolate, dreary, insecable, inseverable, indiscerptible, compact, indivisible, atomic, irresolvable, singly, alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the singular number, in the abstract, one by one, one at a time, simply, one and a half, sesqui-, natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa, du fort au faible, two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Density

N density, solidity, solidness, impenetrability, impermeability, incompressibility, imporosity, cohesion, constipation, consistence, spissitude, specific gravity, hydrometer, areometer, condensation, caseation, solidation, solidification, consolidation, concretion, coagulation, petrification, crystallization, precipitation, deposit, precipitate, inspissation, gelation, thickening, indivisibility, indiscerptibility, insolubility, indissolvableness, solid body, mass, block, knot, lump, concretion, concrete, conglomerate, cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum, bone, gristle, cartilage, casein, crassamentum, legumin, superdense matter, condensed states of matter, dwarf star, neutron star, dense, solid, solidified, caseous, pukka, coherent, cohesive, compact, close, serried, thickset, substantial, massive, lumpish, impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous, incompressible, constipated, concrete, knotted, knotty, gnarled, crystalline, crystallizable, thick, grumous, stuffy, undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed, indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.

Tenacity

N tenacity, toughness, strength, (cohesion), grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion), sequacity, stubbornness (obstinacy), glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness, viscidity, (semiliquidity), leather, white leather, whitleather, gristle, cartilage, unbreakability, tensile strength, tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather, stubborn, unbreakable, indivisible, atomic.