determinable
See also: déterminable
English
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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
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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, :
- 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
Etymology
From determinar + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deteɾmiˈnable/ [d̪e.t̪eɾ.miˈna.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: de‧ter‧mi‧na‧ble
Adjective
determinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural determinables)
Further reading
- “determinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025