determinable

[dih-tur-muh-nuh-buhl]

adjective

1. capable of being determined.

2. Law.,  subject to termination.

Other Word Forms

• determinability noun
• determinableness noun
• determinably adverb
• nondeterminable adjective
• undeterminable adjective
• undeterminableness noun
• undeterminably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of determinable¹

1275–1325; Middle English: fixed < Old French < Late Latin dēterminābilis, equivalent to Latin dētermin ( āre ) to bound, determine + -ābilis -able

Example Sentences

It also said the "financial impact is not determinable" but may result in significant lost earnings.

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Questions about a virus – what happened and why? – should be empirical questions that have determinable answers.

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The PGA Tour, among others, worried that banning bets on “an occurrence determinable by one person or one play” could altogether prohibit bets on individual sports, including golf.

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The idea that there is a determinable origin point where a sonic idea was born is a romantic one.

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Incidentally, Campbell also believed in telepathy, and once argued that there was “a barely determinable possible correlation between cigarette smoking and cancer”.

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