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sepaline |
sepalody |
sepaloid |
sepalous |
separability |
separable
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| separate
| separate off
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separable
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective separable has 1 sense
- separable(s = adj.all) dissociable, severable - capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody" Derived form noun separability1
CIDE DICTIONARY
separable, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.].
Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. [1913 Webster]
"Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold."
[1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
separable, adj.
1 able to be separated.
2 Gram. (of a prefix, or a verb in respect of a prefix) written as a separate word in some collocations.
1 able to be separated.
2 Gram. (of a prefix, or a verb in respect of a prefix) written as a separate word in some collocations.
Derivative
separability n. separableness n. separably adv.
Etymology
F s{eacute}parable or L separabilis (as SEPARATE)
ROGET THESAURUS
separable
Disjunction
N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.
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