even number
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[edit]even number (plural even numbers)
- A positive integer that can be divided by two, and two itself.
- (mathematics) An integer that is divisible by two.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see even, number. (a number that is equal or equivalent)
- 1866, Israel Gibbons, Crescent-shine, page 108:
- If you'd come at me with even numbers, I wouldn't leave a grease spot of you.
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[edit]positive integer that can be divided by two
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