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differentiable

American  
[dif-uh-ren-shee-uh-buhl, -shuh-buhl] / ˌdɪf əˈrɛn ʃi ə bəl, -ʃə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being differentiated.


differentiable British  
/ ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃɪəbəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being differentiated

  2. maths possessing a derivative

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of differentiable

First recorded in 1860–65; differenti(ate) + -able

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The paper, "Effort.jl: a fast and differentiable emulator for the Effective Field Theory of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe," was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.

From Science Daily Oct. 30, 2025

Utilizing an innovative deep learning architecture on human neurosurgical recordings, the team employed a rule-based differentiable speech synthesizer to decode speech parameters from cortical signals.

From Science Daily Oct. 11, 2023

"Most importantly, wet markets aren't created equal and are differentiable based on whether live and wild animals are sold alongside produce and dead/domesticated animals."

From Salon Jul. 28, 2022

This theorem says that if the function and its partial derivatives are continuous at a point, the function is differentiable.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

Accordingly the function is not differentiable at any point.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

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