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

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

"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

Weierstrass wanted to know whether there was a limit to how not differentiable a continuous function could be, and this example shows that it can be pretty darn non-differentiable!

From Scientific American

The vast majority of mathematicians will assert as objective fact that there is no largest prime number, that pi is irrational, and that every differentiable function is continuous.

From Scientific American