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Separable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Possible to separate: separable sheets of paper.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Able to be separated.

adj. Of a topological space, that it has a countable dense subset.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Capable of being separated, disjoined, or disunited: as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

Separative.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. capable of being divided or dissociated

Word Usage

"Aristotle adds, however, that Socrates had stopped at the point here indicated: he had not gone on, like some others, to make those universal notions or definitions "separable" -- separable, that is to say, from the particular and concrete instances, from which he had gathered them."

Equivalent

divisible

Antonym

inseparable

Form

separable affix separable verb

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

recognisable distinguishable partible divisible discernable