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Definable

adjective

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained. "Definable rules"

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Etymology of 'Definable'

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"Definable" Quotes from Famous Books

... venerablest of the European nationalities, I should find a race more simple, youthful, and less sophisticated than the one I had left behind me. Yet this was my impression. We have lost immensely in some things, and what we have gained is not yet so obvious or so definable. We have lost in reverence, in homeliness, in heart and conscience,—in virtue, using the word in its proper sense. To some, the difference which I note may appear a difference in favor of the great cuteness, wideawakeness, and enterprise of the American, ...

— Winter Sunshine • John Burroughs

... arbitrary, but it followed the plain indications written on every particle of matter. What we call brute matter is whatever is means only, not showing any individuality, or end within itself. A handful of earth is definable only by its chemical or physical properties, which do not distinguish it, but confound it with other things. By itself it is only so much phosphate or silicate, and can come to be something only in a foreign organism, a plant or an animal. In form is ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various

Words linked to "Definable" : determinable