specifiable
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- nonspecifiable adjective
- unspecifiable adjective
Etymology
Origin of specifiable
Example Sentences
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Just as the words black and wrong have no specifiable empirical content, the word right has none, either.
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2022
There must be some specifiable criteria by which an application would be disqualified, e.g., net worth or income.
From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2013
That is to say, it is marked by51 specifiable logical traits not found in physical occurrences as such.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.
The motion is not a simple circle nor has it a readily specifiable period.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
No crime or misdemeanor specifiable on either side; unhappy together, these good many years past, and they at length end it.—Sulzer said, "Men are by nature good."
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Carlyle, Thomas
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