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referable


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Referable  \Ref"er*a*ble\  (r?f"?r*?*b'l),  a. 
  Capable  of  being  referred,  or  considered  in  relation  to 
  something  else;  assignable;  ascribable.  [Written  also 
  {referrible}.] 
 
  It  is  a  question  among  philosophers,  whether  all  the 
  attractions  which  obtain  between  bodies  are  referable 
  to  one  general  cause  --W. 
  Nicholson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  referable 
  adj  :  (usually  followed  by  `to')  able  to  be  assigned  or  credited 
  to  "punctuation  errors  ascribable  to  careless 
  proofreading";  "the  cancellation  of  the  concert  was  due 
  to  the  rain";  "the  oversight  was  not  imputable  to  him"; 
  "decide  to  which  of  these  motives  such  extraordinary 
  scenes  are  referable"-  Charles  Dickens  [syn:  {ascribable(p)}, 
  {due  to(p)},  {imputable(p)},  {referable(p)}] 




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