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Meaning of SEPARABLE

Pronunciation:  'sepurubul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered seperable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody";
 
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 Synonyms: dissociable, divisible, severable
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F.
s['e]parable.]
Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided;
as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable
from the substance in which they exist. --
{Sep"a*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sep"a*ra*bly}, adv.
      Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a
      yellow tincture from gold.               --Boyle.
 

 

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