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ADJECTIVE (1)

1. capable of being divided or dissociated;
- Example: "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"
- Example: "the siamese twins were not considered separable"
- Example: "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody";
[syn: dissociable, separable, severable]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F.
   s['e]parable.]
   Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided;
   as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable
   from the substance in which they exist. --
   Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv.
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         Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a
         yellow tincture from gold.               --Boyle.
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