MEANING
Capable of being separated or disassociated from something else.
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Words that belong together
- dissociable functions
- dissociable effects
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The functions were dissociable under the experimental conditions.
The effects were not fully dissociable with those measurements.
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- dissociable
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: uncommon.
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