🍞 Easy to cut 📊 Able to divide

sliceable

4.2

Can be divided into parts for analysis

adjective
/ˈslaɪsəbl/

Specialized

: divisible

The teacher provided a sliceable chart that helped students understand the complex data better.

Examples

An English doctor consults a four-foot, sliceable, movable image of a patient's liver while operating on the real thing.

Academic text (2002)
We need to create a sliceable version of the report to analyze each section individually.
The new software allows for sliceable data sets, making it easier to compare results.

Synonyms

partible

vssliceable

Specialized

1 9.9

Able to be divided into parts

is used to split things into analytical categories rather than into ownership shares

segregable

vssliceable

1 8.4

Able to be divided from other things and kept on its own

focuses on splitting items for analysis or processing rather than separating them

subdivisible

vssliceable

Specialized

1 6.8

Can be divided again and again into smaller parts that look like the whole

is about dividing into parts for analysis rather than repeated self similar splitting

Antonyms

whole

∞ 1.0

Complete and not broken or divided

How Divisible

granular

9 5.1

sliceable

Specialized

4.2

divisible

7 3.7

indivisible

12 5.8

Surface Forms

sliceable positive

Morphology

sliceable = slice (semi-transparent) = slice + able

Formation is regular: -able attaches to the verb 'slice' to form an adjective meaning 'able to be sliced'.

Etymology

Sliceable comes from the common word slice, which means 'a thin part cut from a whole', and the ending -able, which means 'can be'. A helpful way to remember this sense is to think of a report or data as a cake you can cut into pieces: if it is sliceable, you can divide it into clear parts for analysis.