expressible
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- expressibility noun
- expressibly adverb
- inexpressibility noun
- inexpressible adjective
- inexpressibly adverb
Example Sentences
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Ramanujan immediately contradicted his friend: “It is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways.”
From Scientific American • Mar. 3, 2023
The way the world works will once again be expressible in words.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020
As Lessig writes, “Their meaning comes not from the content of what they say; it comes from the reference, which is expressible only if it is the original that gets used.”
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2019
Ramanujan begs to differ: 1,729 is the smallest that is expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2016
Good as a true universal can only be realized by a true self, and both imply a principle of unity not wholly expressible in terms of the particulars which it unifies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
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