the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Capable of being derived, received, or obtained.
Traceable, as to a source; obtainable by derivation: as, a word derivable from the Greek.
Deducible, as from premises.
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adj. capable of being derived
Word Usage
"Instead it was fully comprehensible and derivable from the world such as it looks, "for what is is; and its very existence is necessitated by the fact that it is.""