INDIVISIBLE

a. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.

2.
a.

Not capable of exact division, as one quantity by another; incommensurable.

3.
n.

That which is indivisible. By atom, nobody will imagine we intend to express a perfect indivisible, but only the least sort of natural bodies. Digby.

4.
n.

An infinitely small quantity which is assumed to admit of no further division. 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.