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investigable en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin investigabilis.

Meanings

1. Capable of being investigated or studied.
   • The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones. 2003, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159
   • Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank. 1869, Dr. Mann, “Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 32, number 1, page 3:
   • This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science. 1954, James Bates, “A Model for the Science of Decision”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 21, number 4, page 336:

Forms

Deriveds

investigability · uninvestigable

Translations (2)

pt averiguável (capable of being investigated) · pt investigável (capable of being investigated)