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English Dictionary: separable by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
separable
adj
  1. capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody";
    Synonym(s): dissociable, separable, severable
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F.
      s[82]parable.]
      Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided;
      as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable
      from the substance in which they exist. --
      {Sep"a*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sep"a*ra*bly}, adv.
  
               Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a
               yellow tincture from gold.                     --Boyle.
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