SEPARABLE

dissociable, separable, severable

(adjective) capable of being divided or dissociated; “often drugs and crime are not dissociable”; “the siamese twins were not considered separable”; “a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

separable (comparative more separable, superlative most separable)

Able to be separated.

(analysis) Of a topological space, having a countable dense subset.

Synonyms

• disunitable

Antonyms

• (able to be separated): annexable, combinable, inseparable

Anagrams

• bearleaps, parseable, spareable, spearable

Source: Wiktionary


Sep"a*ra*ble, a. Etym: [L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.]

Definition: Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.

– Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n.

– Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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