discoverable

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1. discoverable - Adjective

2. discoverable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

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Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes. John Crowe Ransom

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others. Edward R. Tufte

In a word, the Barbarian is discoverable everywhere in this that he cannot make; that he can befog or destroy, but that he cannot sustain; and of every Barbarian in the decline or peril of every civilisation exactly that has been true. Hilaire Belloc

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. David Seabury

I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. Edward Klein

The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery. Jonathan Zittrain

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