separable

[ sep-er-uh-buhl, sep-ruh- ]

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. Compare separation of variables.

separable

/ ˈsɛprəbəl; ˈsɛpərəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be separated, divided, or parted

Derived Forms

• ˌseparaˈbility, noun
• ˈseparably, adverb

Other Words From

• 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

Word History and Origins

Origin of separable¹

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

Example Sentences

In other words, Solms wants to move past the model of mind that sees clear-eyed thought as somehow separable from our baser feelings.

From Washington Post

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.

From Ars Technica

To Madame Merle the self is socially determined and not fully separable from the world around it.

From The Daily Beast

Small veins, rarely exceeding half an inch in width, the fibres not easily separable.

From Project Gutenberg

There seems to be no sufficient reason for explaining it by 'necklace' or 'gorget,' as if it were a separable article of attire.

From Project Gutenberg

And as accidents are separable while body may continue to exist without them, "union" disappears together with the accidents.

From Project Gutenberg

Something that comes from her love and goes to it; no separable quality; nothing that's for herself.

From Project Gutenberg

The adventures themselves organize easily into smaller separable wholes.

From Project Gutenberg