differentiable

American  

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

adjective

1. capable of being differentiated.

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differentiable British  

/ ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃɪəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being differentiated

2. maths possessing a derivative

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Other Word Forms

• differentiability noun
• nondifferentiable adjective
• undifferentiable adjective
• undifferentiably adverb

Etymology

Origin of differentiable

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

Example Sentences

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

Let g be a positive, increasing, and differentiable function on the interval ⎡a, b⎤.

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