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Indivisible vs Undivisible - What's the difference?

indivisible | undivisible |

As adjectives the difference between indivisible and undivisible

is that indivisible is incapable of being divided; atomic while undivisible is alternative form of indivisible.

As a noun indivisible

is that which cannot be divided or split.

indivisible

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Incapable of being divided; atomic.
  • * Dryden
    • One indivisible point of time.
  • (arithmetic) Incapable of being divided by a specific integer without leaving a remainder.

    • Related terms

    * indivision * indivisibility * indivisibleness * indivisibly * individual

    Synonyms

    * unsplittable

    Antonyms

    * divisible * (incapable of being combined) incombinable, uncombinable, unmergeable, ununifiable

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which cannot be divided or split.
  • * Joseph Glanvill
    • The composition of Bodies, whether it be of Divisibles or Indivisibles , is a question which must be rank'd with the Indissolvibles
  • * Digby
    • By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible , but only the least sort of natural bodies.
  • (geometry) An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division.

    • Derived terms

    * method of indivisibles ----

    undivisible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1847 , Johann Heinrich Jacob Müller, Principles of physics and meteorology , page 6:
    • [...]; for to adopt such an assumption were, in other words, to admit that the size of the ultimate undivisible particle is null, while it is evident that, if the ultimate particle have no extension, it cannot enter into the composition of an extended body.