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classifiable

American  
[klas-i-fahy-uh-buhl] / klæs ɪˈfaɪ ə bəl /

adjective

  1. capable of being categorized or classified.


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One internal document from 1973 allegedly says: "Our baby powder contains talc fragments classifiable as fiber. Occasionally sub-trace quantities of tremolite or actinolite are identifiable…"

From BBC Oct. 15, 2025

But what makes grief become a classifiable disorder?

From Salon Apr. 3, 2022

WhatsApp commerce also extends to one-off sales of homemade goods and a wide range of less easily classifiable work.

From The Verge Oct. 19, 2021

The problem is that “UFO,” a catchall term for anything that’s airborne and not immediately classifiable, is so tightly knit to the idea of extraterrestrials in the popular imagination.

From Slate May 28, 2019

He is one of us; or rather, he moves in an eccentric sphere of his own, which crosses, I believe, almost all the orbits of all the classed and classifiable systems of London. 

From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John

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