Hypertext Webster Gateway: "separable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F.
s['e]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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
separable
adj : capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and
crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not
considered seperable"; "a song...never conceived of as
severable from the melody"; [syn: {dissociable}, {severable}]
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