separable
capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.
Mathematics.
containing a countable dense subset.
(of a differential equation) capable of being written so that coefficients of the differentials of the independent and dependent variables are, respectively, functions of these variables alone.: Compare separation of variables.
Origin of separable
1Other words from separable
- sep·a·ra·bil·i·ty, sep·a·ra·ble·ness, noun
- sep·a·ra·bly, adverb
- non·sep·a·ra·bil·i·ty, noun
- non·sep·a·ra·ble, adjective
- non·sep·a·ra·ble·ness, noun
- non·sep·a·ra·bly, adverb
- un·sep·a·ra·ble, adjective
- un·sep·a·ra·ble·ness, noun
- un·sep·a·ra·bly, adverb
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How to use separable in a sentence
In other words, Solms wants to move past the model of mind that sees clear-eyed thought as somehow separable from our baser feelings.
That's because regulations require "behind-the-meter" battery functions to be separable from "in-front-of-the-meter" functions that serve the grid rather than the battery's owner.
To make batteries a better investment, let them do more | Scott K. Johnson | November 5, 2020 | Ars TechnicaTo Madame Merle the self is socially determined and not fully separable from the world around it.
Is Henry James’s ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ the Great American Novel? | Michael Gorra | August 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSmall veins, rarely exceeding half an inch in width, the fibres not easily separable.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesThere seems to be no sufficient reason for explaining it by 'necklace' or 'gorget,' as if it were a separable article of attire.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey Chaucer
And as accidents are separable while body may continue to exist without them, "union" disappears together with the accidents.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikSomething that comes from her love and goes to it; no separable quality; nothing that's for herself.
The Quality of Mercy | W. D. HowellsThe adventures themselves organize easily into smaller separable wholes.
Literature in the Elementary School | Porter Lander MacClintock
British Dictionary definitions for separable
/ (ˈsɛpərəbəl, ˈsɛprəbəl) /
able to be separated, divided, or parted
Derived forms of separable
- separability or separableness, noun
- separably, adverb
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