definable

Speech parts

1. definable - Adjective

2. definable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

known specific extended apparent finite precise obvious expressive allegorical accountable perceptible discoverable exact definite denotative
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Antonyms

indefinable loose approximate inaccurate indescribable ineffable
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Related terms

definability

Phrases with the word

user-definable

Anagrams

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Examples

Isolated material particles are abstractions, their properties being definable and observable only through their interaction with other systems. Niels Bohr

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. Arthur C. Clarke

My ultimate intuitive clue in philosophy is that "God is love" and that the idea of God is definable as that of the being worthy to be loved with all one's heart, mind, soul, and entire being. Charles Hartshorne

The word "God," so "capitalised" (as we Americans say), is the definable proper name, signifying Ens necessarium; in my belief Really creator of all three Universes of Experience. Charles Sanders Peirce

Evolution is definable as a change from an incoherent homogeneity to a coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. Herbert Spencer

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind! William James

Close letter words and terms

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