Definition

The number that gets to boss around the dividend in a division problem. In finance and analytics, it's whatever metric you're dividing by to make your data look smarter—revenue per employee, users per server, suffering per leadership decision.

Example Usage

Our divisor for calculating productivity per team member shows we're 40% more efficient, or our metrics are garbage.

Source: Mathematics and finance terminology

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