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common divisor

NOUN
common denominator
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There is a mathematical explanation for the auditory illusion in my example, sometimes called the missing fundamental: The perceived pitch is the greatest common divisor of the frequencies of the sine waves present.

From Scientific American • Feb. 24, 2018

There was no common divisor for all of the 300 cars shown.

From Time Magazine Archive

And when this greatest common divisor of all the classes and all the interests, this neutral, colorless person to whom no one can find any objection, enters the White House does he represent Labor?

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

What'll he do wid the greatest common divisor an' the indicative mood an' the Sea of Azov, an' the Zambezi River, when he's learned 'em, anyhow?

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by McCarter, Margaret Hill

Totitive, tot′i-tiv, n. a number less than another having with it no common divisor but unity.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various




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