Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Possible to specify: specifiable complaints.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- That may be specified; capable of being distinctly named or stated.
Wiktionary
- adj. Able to be specified
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being specified
Etymologies
- specify + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Stereochemical properties may allow for codons and amino acids to bind in specifiable patterns but this fact alone is causally inadequate to account for the binding we observe within the system enabling gene expression.”
“A theory T is defined to be decidable if there is an effective procedure of deciding whether any given sentence s belongs to T, (where an 'effective procedure' is generally defined to be a finitely-specifiable sequence of algorithmic steps).”
“More specifically I don't like the absence of clarity linking remedies to specifiable outcomes.”
“But the point is there are no mixtures and reactions indicating that chemically based codes necessarily result from specifiable conditions and identifiable substances.”
“Andrew King and Jim Kuypers: "The strategic use of communication, oral or written, to achieve specifiable goals.”
“An origin which is almost totally speculative with respect to specifiable chemical reactions needed to yield a code.”
“I would hope the one hypothesizing and incorporating a selection paradigm into theory, would have some specifiable concept as to what it is that is replicating.”
“Bradford: I would hope the one hypothesizing and incorporating a selection paradigm into theory, would have some specifiable concept as to what it is that is replicating.”
“There is a need for a specifiable determinstic outcome which must preceed a viable self-replicator.”
“Enzymes are linked to identifiable substrates and proteins and RNA can be mapped with amino acids and nucleotides specifiable by identity and sequential order.”
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