specifiable
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7.0
- adjective
- /ˈspɛsɪfaɪəbl/
:
especificable
- What happens, then, is that the curriculum tends over time to focus on easily specifiable outcomes and to lose sight of equally or more important outcomes that are not so easily specifiable.
Examples
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Indeed, the more identity issues seem directly at stake, the more we will find it impossible to interpret the specific affirmations as relying on concepts or on specifiable criteria.
Academic text (1998) -
The requirements for the project are specifiable in the contract to ensure clarity.
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Their god is a manmade, completely specifiable thing.
Blog text (29) -
That way of speaking restricts film form solely to films with specifiable content.
Academic text (1998) -
Those other, specifiable communities possess a large measure of autonomy from the imagining subject.
Academic text (2000) -
Each also puts specifiable limits on Indian claims, however, and may disqualify the return of stolen lands in many cases.
Academic text (2005) -
In other words, one specifiable sort of thing or set of things constitutes the ground on which the profusion of rights lies.
Academic text (1999) -
The Western scientist will manipulate nature to see what happens if this or that variable is isolated and subjected to specifiable conditions.
Academic text (2015) -
However, instruction on the training side of the continuum must prepare learners for a known future with tasks that are relatively well understood in advance and that better lend themselves to specifiable objectives and standards for their performance.
Academic text (2018) -
New behaviors, like new organs, begin uncertainly, with slight modifications of existing structure, but become defined over time, and their function or purpose is specifiable in advance: a certain kind of spider will spin a certain kind of web to catch a certain range of insects under certain conditions, and so on.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
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3.8
Easy to understand
6
3.7
A thing you can describe clearly or show its clear limits
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2.7
Able to be put into words
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5.3
Able to be put into words or shown by actions
Able to be described by qualities like color or size
Can be expressed in words
Antonyms
How Specific
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Specifiable comes from specify, which comes from a Latin root meaning 'kind' or 'form' and is the same root as specific and species. So, something that is specifiable can be made clear or stated in exact detail because it can be given a particular 'kind' or description.