isolatable

American  

[ahy-suh-ley-tuh-buhl, is-uh-] / ˈaɪ səˌleɪ tə bəl, ˈɪs ə- /

adjective

1. isolable.

---

Etymology

Origin of isolatable

isolate + -able

Example Sentences

“Just because the cause of most of these problems is isolated to one individual does not mean that the effects are isolatable.”

From New York Times

“From our point of view, what we need in attacking Ebola is a global effort, because at the end of the day this is not a disease that is isolatable – it is going to impact through the years,” Bristow said.

From Forbes

I bring this up because in my state, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, at the Idaho National Laboratory, there’s nobody doing more on supervisory control and data acquisition matters, and we also have the isolatable transmission and distribution system we call “the loop” and a very important wireless test bed national user facility at the -- at the Idaho National Laboratory.

From Washington Post

In particular, modern medical practitioners are coming around to the idea that certain illnesses cannot be reduced to one isolatable, treatable cause.

From Nature

Intelligence is fundamentally misapprehended when seen as an isolatable entity rather than a complex ideal.

From New York Times