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separable

[ sep-er-uh-buhl, sep-ruh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
Mathematics.
1. containing a countable dense subset.
2. (of a differential equation) capable of being written so that coefficients of the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone. Compare separation of variables.

separable

/ ˈsɛprəbəl; ˈsɛpərəbəl /

1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin sēparābilis, equivalent to sēparā ( re ) to separate + -bilis -ble

To Madame Merle the self is socially determined and not fully separable from the world around it.

Small veins, rarely exceeding half an inch in width, the fibres not easily separable.

There seems to be no sufficient reason for explaining it by 'necklace' or 'gorget,' as if it were a separable article of attire.

And as accidents are separable while body may continue to exist without them, "union" disappears together with the accidents.

Something that comes from her love and goes to it; no separable quality; nothing that's for herself.

The adventures themselves organize easily into smaller separable wholes.

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