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English
Etymology
From explore + -able.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ex‧plo‧ra‧ble
Adjective
explorable (comparative more explorable, superlative most explorable)
- Capable of being explored.
Translations
capable of being explored
Noun
explorable (plural explorables)
- (rare) That which can be explored; a subject for exploration.
2004, Samuel Oluwole Ogundele, Rethinking West African Archaeology, page 129:[…] this preconceived notion necessarily makes it impossible for many archaeologists, especially those who trained in the Western intellectual environment to explore the explorables.
1968, Ivor Armstrong Richards, So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English, page 265:The way to recover a truly elementary education (one which provides, nourishes and liberates the elements) is through the same experimental curiosities as to how language works which give the child speech. But when he comes to writing let us give him sequenced explorables — to sustain and encourage in him the concept of an intelligible world.
French
Etymology
From explorer + -able.
Adjective
explorable (plural explorables)
- explorable
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