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English
Etymology
From Middle French séparable, from Latin separabilis.
Adjective
separable (comparative more separable, superlative most separable)
- Able to be separated.
- (mathematics, of a differential equation) Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
- (mathematical analysis, of a topological space) Having a countable dense subset.
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able to be separated
- Bulgarian: отделим (bg) (otdelim)
- Catalan: separable
- Dutch: scheidbaar (nl)
- Finnish: separoituva, erottuva (fi)
- Galician: separable (gl)
- German: separabel, trennbar (de)
- Hungarian: szétválasztható (hu), elválasztható (hu), (of verbal prefixes) elváló
- Italian: separabile
- Japanese: 切り離せる (きりはなせる, kirihanaseru), 分離できる (ja) (ぶんりできる, bunri dekiru), 可分の (ja) (かぶんの, kabun no)
- Latin: sēparābilis
- Portuguese: separável (pt)
- Russian: отделимый (ru) (otdelimyj)
- Spanish: separable
- Swedish: avtagbar (sv), delbar (sv), separabel (sv)
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Asturian
Adjective
separable (epicene, plural separables)
- separable
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sēparābilis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
separable m or f (masculine and feminine plural separables)
- separable
- Antonym: inseparable
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Spanish
Etymology
From Latin sēparābilis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sepaˈɾable/
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: se‧pa‧ra‧ble
Adjective
separable m or f (masculine and feminine plural separables)
- separable, detachable
- Antonym: inseparable
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