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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 proves the chain rule at t = t0; the rest of the theorem follows from the assumption that all functions are differentiable over their entire domains.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

The criminalist has to study relations, actions, and assertions, to value and to compare them when they are differentiable only in terms of the nurture of those who are responsible for them.

From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Gross, Hans Gustav Adolf

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