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determinable en · ADJ

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Etymology

Etymology tree English determine Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English determinable From determine + -able.

Meanings

1. able to be determined or limited
2. able to be decided or settled by law
3. (postpositional) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

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Antonyms

undeterminable · indeterminable

Deriveds

determinablism · fee simple determinable · predeterminable · term of years determinable · determinableness

Relateds

determinably · determinability

Translations (7)

lv konstatējams (able to be determined or limited) · lv noteicams (able to be determined or limited) · de bestimmbar (able to be determined or limited) · scn ditirminàbbili (able to be determined or limited) · it precisabile (able to be determined or limited) · pt determinável (able to be determined or limited) · scn ditirminàvili (able to be determined or limited)

determinable en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English determine Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English determinable From determine + -able.

Meanings

1. An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
   • It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are. 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

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