What's the difference between devisor and divisor?
Devisor
Definition:
(n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.
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Divisor
Definition:
(n.) The number by which the dividend is divided.
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(1) The new index distinguished 19 of 23 patients with pulmonary hypertension, with one false positive, when the divisor was actual lung volume; when predicted lung volume was used 18 of 23 patients were distinguished, again with one false positive result.
(2) The common divisor for interectopic intervals, ectopic complex interpolation, P-Q and Q-T intervals of the main complex and the presence of a wave on the ascending or descending slope of the R wave in sinus QRS complex were determined.
(3) The residual mean-square errors (the divisor being four less than the number of data points, since four parameters are estimated) seem to be unbiased estimators of the variances of the errors.
(4) The number of physically acceptable solutions for a given N is omega(N) + 1, where omega(N) is the number of divisors of N. The ground-state energy and entropy for these are calculated.