"determinable" meaning in English

See determinable in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-determinable.wav [US] Forms: more determinable [comparative], most determinable [superlative]
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  1. able to be determined or limited Translations (able to be determined or limited): bestimmbar (German), precisabile (Italian), noteicams (Latvian), konstatējams (Latvian), determinável (Portuguese), ditirminàbbili (Sicilian), ditirminàvili (Sicilian)
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  2. (law) able to be decided or settled by law
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  3. (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event. Tags: postpositional
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: determinableness, determinablism, fee simple determinable, predeterminable, term of years determinable Related terms: determinability, determinably

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-determinable.wav [US] Forms: determinables [plural]
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  1. (philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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