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separable Definition

sepa·rable (sepə rə bəl, seprə bəl)

adjective

that can be separated

Etymology: ME < L separabilis

separable Related Forms
sep′a·rabil·ity noun sepa·rably adverb
separable Synonyms

separable

modif.

breakable, severable, detachable; see divisible.

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.