separable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sep=a=ra=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

separable, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. séparable.].

 Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist.  [1913 Webster]
"Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

separable, adj.
1 able to be separated.
2 Gram. (of a prefix, or a verb in respect of a prefix) written as a separate word in some collocations.

Derivative

separability n. separableness n. separably adv.

Etymology

F s{eacute}parable or L separabilis (as SEPARATE)

ROGET THESAURUS

separable

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.