Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being determined or made certain.
- Capable of being ascertained or found out by trial, experiment, investigation, inquiry, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That may be ascertained.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
ascertained .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being ascertained or found out
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Examples
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Why de Man insists upon such violence and such concealment is more readily ascertainable from the context of this remark: a reading of the figure of the dance in texts by Kleist and
Aesthetic Violence and the Legitimacy of Reading Romanticism 2005
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I suspect that workable density, in the city of the future, will abound with the types of spaces readily ascertainable from cities of the past.
Charles R. Wolfe: Confronting The Urban Mirror Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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The boundary of what is solely a matter of personal responsibility and on what matters individuals should receive support or help is not objectively ascertainable.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Double Standard of Libertarian Paternalism 2010
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Standard economic argument: as long as quality is objectively ascertainable from use, the market will correct for any distortions, and more generally, if people are willing to pay more, that subjective utility is an unarguable economic value.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Penumbras and Emanations have no measurable, quantifiable, or even ascertainable standards.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Destroying the Constitution’s Structure is not Constitutional 2010
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I suspect that workable density, in the city of the future, will abound with the types of spaces readily ascertainable from cities of the past.
Charles R. Wolfe: Confronting The Urban Mirror Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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Bolton found merit in the plaintiffs 'arguments for potential Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment violations because the immigration law contains no meaningful procedural safeguards against erroneous deprivations of liberty, and immigration status is not something that is easily ascertainable.
Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I suspect that workable density, in the city of the future, will abound with the types of spaces readily ascertainable from cities of the past.
Charles R. Wolfe: Confronting The Urban Mirror Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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Bolton found merit in the plaintiffs 'arguments for potential Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment violations because the immigration law contains no meaningful procedural safeguards against erroneous deprivations of liberty, and immigration status is not something that is easily ascertainable.
Federal Judge Rejects Jan Brewer's Challenge To Arizona Immigration Lawsuit The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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I suspect that workable density, in the city of the future, will abound with the types of spaces readily ascertainable from cities of the past.
Charles R. Wolfe: Confronting The Urban Mirror Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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