separable

American  

[sep-er-uh-buhl, sep-ruh-] / ˈsɛp ər ə bəl, ˈsɛp rə- /

adjective

1. capable of being separated, parted, or dissociated.

2. Mathematics.

   1. containing a countable dense subset.

   2. (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.

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separable British  

/ ˈsɛprəbəl, ˈsɛpərəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be separated, divided, or parted

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Other Word Forms

• nonseparability noun
• nonseparable adjective
• nonseparableness noun
• nonseparably adverb
• separability noun
• separableness noun
• separably adverb
• unseparable adjective
• unseparableness noun
• unseparably adverb

Etymology

Origin of separable

1350–1400; Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin sēparābilis, equivalent to sēparā ( re ) to separate + -bilis -ble

Example Sentences

But up until then, the night’s two starting pitchers were hardly separable.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2025

The tribunal rejected the claim as the firms were in "separable" areas.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

The definition of food addiction is separable from obesity.

From Scientific American • Sep. 11, 2023

This “analysis” made no room for the complexity of cultural influences, and reduced me to a collection of separable Chinese and American parts, somehow symbolic of the United States and China as rival political entities.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022

Chemically distinct from uranium and therefore theoretically separable by chemical means, element 94 appeared to be about five times more fissionable than uranium.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik