Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being interpreted or explained.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of interpretation; capable of being interpreted or explained.
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- adjective Capable of being
interpreted orexplained
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- adjective capable of being understood
Etymologies
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Examples
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However, since they do not, in fact, use any term interpretable as expressing an explicit concept of experience, we should stick closely to their terminology and characterize “personal knowledge” (qin zhi, B70) as knowledge by observation (guan).
Mohist Canons Fraser, Chris 2009
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Arguably, they thus acknowledge a distinction between utility or social norms and semantic truth (though their discussion here uses no word interpretable as “truth”).
Mohism Fraser, Chris 2009
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(Fluency: The total number of interpretable, meaningful, and relevant ideas generated in response to the stimulus).? hooked I need help to think of an idea.
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To ensure that our findings are interpretable to readers who are not necessarily well-versed in statistical methods, we have translated them into more intuitive metrics.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Interval Measurement, which allows interpretation of ratios of differences, so that, for example, one difference can be said to be twice another, also arithmetic means are interpretable, as well as medians and modes.
Subjective Relative Measurement, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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However, mentioned elsewhere in the two summaries released so far are statements interpretable as suggesting the remote possibility of 5-7 meters (about 15-22 feet).
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Liberal party discourse is always sinuous and infinitely interpretable.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The only real lesson that can be taken away from the Republican's political stunt of reading the Constitution is how endlessly changeable and interpretable the document truly is.
Chris Weigant: Reading the Constitution Chris Weigant 2011
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So far, your definition of God is simply “a higher order”, a vague statement, but interpretable as true.
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Although, outwards signs etc. would be interpretable along the lines of an interstate Kremlinology.
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