Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Capable of being proved or demonstrated.

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

  • adjective Capable of being proved; demonstrable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of a statement or hypothesis that can be proven.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective capable of being demonstrated or proved

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Examples

  • I maintain that the demand for rarities, while not readily apparent or provable, is very strong, and that reports of minimal supply in 2010 have been overstated.

    New Weekly Column: Coin Rarities & Related Topics : Coin Collecting News 2010

  • (Trust your wife) $1500 per month in provable income will very likely be enough for both of you with a 50% reduction in the amount of required income for her.

    moving belongings to Mexico with FM3 2007

  • All of these involve experimental verification, and can be properly called provable fact.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Leiter’s Tunnel Vision: 2007

  • To the extent that anything is "provable" in economics, there is good evidence against a significant stimulus role for tax cuts.

    Paul Abrams: Dems (and Obama) Are Losing the Economic Argument: They May Also Lose the Economy 2009

  • Even more sure than something "provable" as gravity.

    Kirk Cameron attempts to debunk Darwin 2009

  • As I'm currently working on "provable" cryptography and this has quite some relation to it, I'll try to explain it a bit in simple words and will give some outlook what this may mean for the security of your bank accounts and encrypted emails in the future.

    Hanno's blog 2010

  • As I'm currently working on "provable" cryptography and this has quite some relation to it, I'll try to explain it a bit in simple words and will give some outlook what this may mean for the security of your bank accounts and encrypted emails in the future.

    Hanno's blog 2010

  • As I'm currently working on "provable" cryptography and this has quite some relation to it, I'll try to explain it a bit in simple words and will give some outlook what this may mean for the security of your bank accounts and encrypted emails in the future.

    Hanno's blog 2010

  • As I'm currently working on "provable" cryptography and this has quite some relation to it, I'll try to explain it a bit in simple words and will give some outlook what this may mean for the security of your bank accounts and encrypted emails in the future.

    Hanno's blog 2010

  • As I'm currently working on "provable" cryptography and this has quite some relation to it, I'll try to explain it a bit in simple words and will give some outlook what this may mean for the security of your bank accounts and encrypted emails in the future.

    Hanno's blog 2010

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