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separable |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf F. s['e]parable.] Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- {Sep"a*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sep"a*ra*bly}, adv Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. --Boyle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: separable adj : capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered seperable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody"; [syn: {dissociable}, {severable}]
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