differentiable
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See also: différentiable
English
Etymology
From differentiate + -able.
Pronunciation
Adjective
differentiable (comparative more differentiable, superlative most differentiable)
- (calculus, not comparable) Having a derivative, said of a function whose domain and codomain are manifolds.
- 1896 August, W. Williams, “On the Convergency of Fourier's Series”, in The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and .Journal of Science, volume 42, number 255, page 137:
- A function which is differentiable wherever it is continuous is said to possess ordinary continuity.
- (comparable, of multiple items) able to be differentiated; distinguishable, as for example by differing appearance or measurable characteristics.
- 1890, Randolph Sinks Foster, Studies in Theology, page 117:
- It would, in that case, have been as real as it now is, and would have been differentiable from its Maker as an effect is differentiable from its cause.
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math: having a derivative
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able to be differentiated or distinguished
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Danish
Adjective
differentiable