even number

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even number (plural even numbers)

  1. A positive integer that can be divided by two, and two itself.
  2. (mathematics) An integer that is divisible by two.
  3. 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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