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English
Etymology
determine + -able
Adjective
determinable (comparative more determinable, superlative most determinable)
- able to be determined or limited
- (law) able to be decided or settled by law
- (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.
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able to be determined or limited
Noun
determinable (plural determinables)
- (philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are.
Spanish
Adjective
determinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural determinables)
- determinable
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