separable
separable
Definition
sepa·rable (sep′ə rə bəl, sep′rə bəl)
adjective
that can be separated
Etymology: ME < L separabilis
sep′a·rabil′·ity noun
sep′a·rably adverb
separable
Synonyms
separable
Law Definition
adj
Capable of being split or
divided into its component parts.
separable
Usage Examples
Preposition: from
- society: Science develops artifacts [ technologies ] in ways that are separable from society.
- body: So on Aristotle's account, although the soul is not a material object, it is not separable from the body.
- issue: Issues related to national consciousness of the Hellenic population became separable from issues related to theological questions.
Modifies a noun
- verb: I might gladly the separable verb also a little bit reform.
- equation: Energy methods for reduction to a separable first order equation.
- cycle: The Folding Society Test Reports on Folding and Separable Cycles Most recent tests now listed first.
- function: Conclusions: TVA has proved a powerful theory to examine a range of separable attentional functions in this patient population.
- part: Some modern kettles are also cordless now, they have two separable parts.
- component: It has this characteristic shape because the air flows, forces and energies required to fly have to separable components.
Modifying Another Word
- analytically: They argue that ' the economic ' is not ' something which is analytically separable from society or culture ' ( pp.
- entirely: Since the two aspects of SDI are not entirely separable, some overlap is going to occur.
- easily: He stands squarely in a tradition in which dishonesty and fanaticism merge, in an amalgam which is often not easily separable from insanity.
- clearly: The frontal and temporal presentations of FTD are clearly separable from each other and early AD.
- not: We have been singing together for years and are not separable!
- linearly: In this case two of the fault classes were linearly separable, whilst the third was not.
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