highest common factor

Definitions of highest common factor
  1. noun
    the largest integer that divides without remainder into a set of integers
    synonyms: greatest common divisor, greatest common factor
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    type of:
    common divisor, common factor, common measure
    an integer that divides two (or more) other integers evenly
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