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However, when you state that only one of the constants from which the Stephan-Boltzmann constant is derived is itself derivable (namely, pi), I myself am not exactly sure what to make of this.

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  1. Capable of being derived, received, or obtained. Obtainable, as from a source: as, income is derivable from land, money, or stock; an estate derivable from an ancestor. He here confounds the pleasure derivable from sweet sounds with the capacity for creating them. Poe, Tales, I. 360. Having disregarded the warning derivable from common experience, he was answerable for the consequences. H. Spencer, Man vs. State, p. 47.
  2. Traceable, as to a source; obtainable by derivation: as, a word derivable from the Greek.
  3. Deducible, as from premises. The second sort of arguments … are derivable from some of these heads. Wilkins.

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  • However, when you state that only one of the constants from which the Stephan-Boltzmann constant is derived is itself derivable (namely, pi), I myself am not exactly sure what to make of this. —  RealClimate
  • Chris said that it is measurable but also derivable - meaning that you can derive it from other physical constants - and implying a deeper theoretical unity between the study of black body radiation and quantum statistical mechanics. —  RealClimate
  • A a mathematical measure of their economic impact ought to be derivable, something like —  NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
  • From private Tuition, in never so many languages and sciences, the aid derivable is small; neither, to use his own words, 'does the young Adventurer hitherto suspect in himself any literary gift; but at best earns bread-and-water wages, by his wide faculty of Translation. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
  • To be sure, the vague impression derivable was that the "scene" had its origin in strong drink. —  Foe-Farrell
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  1. = French dérivable = Spanish derivable; as derive + -able.
 

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