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detectible en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English detect Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ibilis Old French -ibleder. Middle English -ible English -ible English detectible From detect + -ible.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Able to be detected.
    • The other crucial finding of the report was that there was a detectible “optimism bias” among Google employees. 2008 January 7, Noam Cohen, “Google’s Lunchtime Betting Game”, in New York Times:

Deriveds

detectibly · indetectible