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determinable.

Adjective
Formal
MEANING

1. Capable of being established or determined under relevant conditions.

2. Liable to end when a stated condition occurs.

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  • determinable quantity
  • determinable cause

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The quantity was determinable from the complete record.
The cause was not determinable from those observations alone.

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determinable

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally relational or categorical; comparison only where the particular property admits gradation. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: formal properties, scope and scale, organizational relations, analytic representation. Disciplines: academic writing, formal methods, cross-disciplinary analysis. Commonness: moderately common.

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