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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

Differentiability Implies Continuity shows that if a function is differentiable at a point, then it is continuous there.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

The most important theorem in regard to differentiable functions is the “theorem of intermediate value.”

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

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