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Definition of Distinguishable

1. Adjective. Capable of being perceived as different or distinct. "Distinguishable differences between the twins"

2. Adjective. (often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality. "Management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees"

Definition of Distinguishable

1. a. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.

Definition of Distinguishable

1. Adjective. Able, or easily able to be distinguished. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Distinguishable

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Distinguishable

1. 1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. "A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . Is not distinguishable into different ideas." (Locke) 2. Worthy of note or special regard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinguishable

distinction distinction without a difference distinctions distinctions without a difference distinctive distinctive feature distinctively distinctiveness distinctly distinctness

distinctnesses distincture distingue distinguish distinguishability distinguishable (current term) distinguishableness distinguishably distinguished distinguishedly

distinguisher distinguishers distinguishes distinguishest distinguisheth distinguishing distinguishing characteristic distinguishingly distinguishment distinguishments

Literary usage of Distinguishable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, George Mifflin Wharton (1845)
"That at any rate, this case was distinguishable from R. v. Yarpole ; for here the objection made went to the merits of the original order itself, ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"Occasionally a crystal is seen to contain a few clear, glassy spots quite easily distinguishable with a hand lens. ..."

3. Elements of Criticism by Henry Home Kames (1819)
"... are distinguishable into simple and complex. Certain sounds are so simple as not to be resolvable into parts ; and so are certain tastes and smells. ..."

4. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck (1908)
"3 Many of the elements out of which patriotism proper has grown are clearly distinguishable among savages, even the very lowest. We have previously noticed ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Hence, even though there were no good works distinguishable in a person's earthly career; such an one might and ought, notwithstanding, cherish a firm hope, ..."

6. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"... sixteen miles distant in the northeast (in clear weather another cape is faintly distinguishable beyond this), and about one third of the great horizon ..."

7. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"A humerus, &c., in particular, were scarcely distinguishable. This was also the case with some other small bones belonging to both species. ..."

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