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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to separate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being separated, disjoined, or disunited: as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.
- Separative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
separated . - adjective analysis Of a
topological space , that it has acountable dense subset.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being divided or dissociated
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Examples
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Aristotle adds, however, that Socrates had stopped at the point here indicated: he had not gone on, like some others, to make those universal notions or definitions "separable" -- separable, that is to say, from the particular and concrete instances, from which he had gathered them.
Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866
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It's most likely because a large-scale event like an earthquake can't easily be separable from a small one like a landslide - the latter often triggered by the former.
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Also, defend your view that what “the result should be according to law” is actually separable from the conservative or liberal tendencies of the person writing the opinion?
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As I pointed out in my review, I was addressing only reverse engineering the device itself (and generic data on it), not addressing any trade secret data, separable from the device, remaining onit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Next iPhone — and the Criminal Law Angle 2010
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Also, defend your view that what “the result should be according to law” is actually separable from the conservative or liberal tendencies of the person writing the opinion?
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The present multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets), measured as latent variables, examined why people vary in these executive control abilities and why these abilities are correlated but separable from a behavioral genetic perspective.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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The present multivariate twin study of 3 executive functions (inhibiting dominant responses, updating working memory representations, and shifting between task sets), measured as latent variables, examined why people vary in these executive control abilities and why these abilities are correlated but separable from a behavioral genetic perspective.
Tight Genes 2008
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As he convincingly illustrates, what Blake objected to was the Cartesian construct of nature as an object domain separable from human consciousness, a world of dead matter that could be exploited ad infinitum to benefit humanity's estate.
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This notion of an immaterial soul potentially separable from the body clashes starkly with the scientific view.
Is God an Accident? 2005
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This notion of an immaterial soul potentially separable from the body clashes starkly with the scientific view.
Is God an Accident? 2005
MaryW commented on the word separable
Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession (New York: Penguin Random House, 2007), p. 17June 19, 2017