specifiable

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English specify
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English specifiable

    From specify + -able.

    Adjective

    specifiable (comparative more specifiable, superlative most specifiable)

    1. Able to be specified
      • 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
        Malament’s suggestion […] provides a striking example of how close the descriptive content of the two theories is in at least one precisely specifiable sense.

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