Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being derived, received, or obtained.
- Traceable, as to a source; obtainable by derivation: as, a word derivable from the Greek.
- Deducible, as from premises.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical.
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- adjective
able to bederived ,deducible
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being derived
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Examples
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They indicate how carefully the author is thinking about the multiplicity of meanings derivable from the metaphors:
Balkinization 2006
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Instead it was fully comprehensible and derivable from the world such as it looks, "for what is is; and its very existence is necessitated by the fact that it is."
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The truth about Rebecca West, who has written _The Judge_, seems to be dependably derivable from the English _Who's Who_, a standard work always worth consulting.
When Winter Comes to Main Street Grant Martin Overton 1908
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Still, I think it’s worth noting that the jobs number still in circulation is some 50 times higher than the absolute maximum figure you could squeeze out of the most inflated possible estimate derivable from the actual study the government conducted two years later.
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In Blake, however, it would be an organization and, in relation to the classical order, a reorganization — and emergence — of singular, unique "minute particulars" as here described, rather than, as (or so it would appear) in Plato, "derivable"
Chaosmic Orders: Nonclassical Physics, Allegory, and the Epistemology of Blake's Minute Particulars. 2001
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I do not believe that the evolution of the biosphere, economy and human culture are derivable from or reducible to physics.
Stuart Kauffman and Reinventing the Sacred Gordon McCabe 2009
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Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, concedes in his book "Dreams of a Final Theory" that there's a problem with consciousness, and despite the power of physical theory, the existence of consciousness doesn't seem derivable from physical laws.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979, concedes in his book "Dreams of a Final Theory" that there's a problem with consciousness, and despite the power of physical theory, the existence of consciousness doesn't seem derivable from physical laws.
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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Gestalt -: a structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts.
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In particular, epistemological reductionism proposes that the theories and laws of any branch of science are derivable from those of physics.
Stuart Kauffman and Reinventing the Sacred Gordon McCabe 2009
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