discoverable
- adjective
- /dɪsˈkʌvərəbəl/
- His hidden talents were only discoverable after he started taking part in various activities.
- discoverable documents
- discoverable information
- discoverable data
Examples
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The research team found that many insights were discoverable through careful analysis of the data.
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With the right tools and techniques, valuable information can be easily discoverable online.
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In that case, laws are discoverable by reason.
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Having a place to keep documents where it's always discoverable is has been a huge, huge thing to our organization.
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What was happening behind was not discoverable from any of the available information.
Fiction book (1995) -
All of that data costs money to maintain and is discoverable in litigation.
Academic text (2005) -
Lawyers need to be thinking about the forms in which documents should be produced and ways to preserve discoverable information.
Academic text (2006) -
Under the rule, then, electronic data and emails will be discoverable.
Academic text (1999) -
At present, more than ninety percent of discoverable information is generated and stored electronically.
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Courts have ruled that electronic files on laptops, personal digital assistants, and the Internet are now discoverable.
Academic text (2003)
Synonyms
Easy to notice or find
Someone can find it by searching a computer or database
You can show it comes from a particular source
Something you can learn or understand
Easy to discover when you search for it
You can find out from facts or data
Able to be worked out from the given information
Easy to find out from information or clues
Possible to find or reveal by searching
You can understand it from facts or clues
Can be guessed from a small amount of evidence
Someone can understand or solve it if they try
Antonyms
How Discoverable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word discoverable comes from discover + -able, and discover once meant 'take off the cover', from dis- 'undo' and cover 'cover'. So, something discoverable is able to be 'uncovered' or found out.