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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of being discriminated; distinguishable.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • That may be discriminated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Capable of being discriminated.

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  • adjective That can be discriminated or distinguished from others

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  • adjective capable of being discriminated

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Examples

  • The OHRC does not indicate that current or past position is a discriminable ground.

    Criminal Defence Lawyers Need Not Apply : Law is Cool 2010

  • For each minimally discriminable point within the perceiver's perceptual field (where these are identified relative to an origin and axes centered in the perceiver's body) we need to start by specifying whether it is occupied by a surface and, if so, what the orientation, solidity, hue, brightness and saturation of that surface are.

    Nonconceptual Mental Content Bermúdez, José 2008

  • Blockhead is a creature that looks just like a human being, but that is controlled by a “game-of-life look-up tree,” i.e. by a tree that contains a programmed response for every discriminable input at each stage in the creature's life.

    The Turing Test Oppy, Graham 2008

  • When considering the kind of cognitive resources required for representing and acquiring these concepts and actions, the sacred and the profane may be less discriminable than is commonly assumed...

    Archive 2005-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • When considering the kind of cognitive resources required for representing and acquiring these concepts and actions, the sacred and the profane may be less discriminable than is commonly assumed...

    Religious Cognition Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

  • When considering the kind of cognitive resources required for representing and acquiring these concepts and actions, the sacred and the profane may be less discriminable than is commonly assumed...

    A Comprehensive Theory of Religious Cognition Chris 2005

  • To separate the cognizing subject from its object, to attend to one discriminable element apart from its surrounding, and the like, are all condemned as falsifications of reality.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

  • To separate the cognizing subject from its object, to attend to one discriminable element apart from its surrounding, and the like, are all condemned as falsifications of reality.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • In the discrimination box (Figures 14 and 15, p. 92) the two electric-boxes which were otherwise exactly alike in appearance were rendered discriminable for the mouse by the presence of white cardboards in one and black cardboards in the other.

    The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916

  • As it has already been proved that they readily learn to choose the right box under discriminable conditions, it seems reasonable to conclude either that they lack green-blue vision, or that they have it in a relatively undeveloped state.

    The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior Robert M. Yerkes 1916

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