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isolable

isolable

8.9
Can be separated from other things
  • adjective
  • /ˈaɪsəˌleɪbəl/
translation icon : aislable
  • Each element in the experiment was isolable, allowing the researchers to study them individually.

Goods, rules and virtues, as a result of such fragmentation, are reconceived as isolable from one another.

Examples

  • Goods, rules and virtues, as a result of such fragmentation, are reconceived as isolable from one another.

  • No concerted action by an isolable agent was involved.

    Academic text (2004)
  • To the "disjunctive syntheses" of the reconciliation process - particular agents identified and accused - it actualizes "a larger combination" in which "no concerted action by an isolable agent."

    Academic text (2004)
  • For clarity, the data can be isolable into distinct categories based on the criteria provided.

  • The components of the system are isolable, making it easier to troubleshoot each part.

Synonyms

separable
vsisolable
2 4.6

Able to be taken apart from something else

is about being isolated from other things rather than split apart
dissociable
vsisolable
7.7

Able to be separated or treated as separate from something else

is about being physically isolated from other things

How Separable

removable
20 3.3
detachable
9 3.5
isolable
8.9
fixed
1.0
inseparable
46 3.4

Surface Forms

isolable positive

Morphology

isolable = isolate (transparent) = isolate + able

The adjective is formed by adding the productive suffix '-able' to the verb 'isolate', yielding the clear meaning 'able to be isolated'.

Etymology

Isolable comes from the idea of making something like an island, and is related to isolate, which comes from an old word that meant 'island'. So something isolable can be separated or made 'alone' from other things.