represent
verb (used with object)
to serve to express, designate, stand for, or denote, as a word, symbol, or the like does; symbolize.
representable
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a word derived from
represent.
Example Sentences
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At that moment will π continue to be representable as an infinite sum, an infinite product, and an infinitely repeated fraction?
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2015
She swivels her oxford-shirted arms at an easy middle distance between waist and shoulders, she engages in short dance-offs with women in the audience, gleefully hip-checking the limits of representable female desire.
From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2014
Usually it has become representable in terms of the flat file model used by SQL.
From Forbes ● Feb. 28, 2013
How can God, whose sight no living man has endured, be representable in a picture?
From Time Magazine Archive
Anatomy and perspective taxed the understanding of the artist, whose whole force was no longer devoted to the task of bringing religious ideas within the limits of the representable.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
