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Sticking vs Indivisible - What's the difference?

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Sticking is a related term of indivisible.


As nouns the difference between sticking and indivisible

is that sticking is a sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks while indivisible is that which cannot be divided or split.

As a verb sticking

is .

As an adjective indivisible is

incapable of being divided; atomic.

sticking

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sequence or arrangement of drum notes to be played with drumsticks.
  • * 1997 , Gary Cook, Teaching percussion (page 72)
    • Too often the beginning student finds it more difficult to observe the stickings when reading single beats or duple beat divisions (e.g., quarter notes and eighth notes in 4/4 time) than if he or she alternated freely from hand to hand.

    Anagrams

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    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 ----