Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. That can be differentiated: differentiable species.
- adj. Mathematics Possessing a derivative.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being differentiated or discriminated.
- In mathematics, having a determinate finite or determinate infinite derivative.
Wiktionary
- adj. calculus, not comparable Having a derivative, said of a function whose domain and codomain are manifolds.
- adj. comparable, of multiple items able to be differentiated, e.g. because they appear different
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Math.) possessing a differential coefficient or derivative; -- of a mathematical expression.
- adj. capable of being perceived as different.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. possessing a differential coefficient or derivative
- adj. capable of being perceived as different
Etymologies
- From differentiate + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The second assumption we're going to make is that spacetime is '' differentiable '' everywhere.”
“I think that we mislead students who may be headed into business when we describe the world in terms of differentiable functions.”
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“The book gave me a glimpse of the rich world of differentiable functions of complex variable and I felt dizzy as if wandering off into a foreign place, quite different from the world I had previously known.”
“Wikipedia gives the following informal wording: “To every differentiable symmetry generated by local actions, there corresponds a conserved current.””
“Some informal background: a Riemannian manifold is a differentiable manifold (where the tangent space at each point has an inner product) with a positive-definite metric tensor, d (x, y) ≥ 0.”
“I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income)”
“(In the case of a stochastic process, these histories will typically be non-differentiable).”
“Verizon and other ISPs look at it as some equivalent of the iPhone App Store, generating revenue, giving control over content, and creating a differentiable brand experience that locks people in through third-party efforts.”
“Massachusetts did not have any specific interest that was differentiable from other states or from its citizen Mrs. Frothingham, who also challenged the statute in the companion case.”
“These have an effect on IQ, an effect on discount rates ability to defer gratification, which is critical -- it is a differentiable quality from IQ although correlated with it, and also an effect on general know-how of how to get along in life.”
Does It Matter If IQ Matters?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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