Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of delineation; liable to be delineated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being, or liable to be,
delineated .
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Across the course of his intellectual life, Peirce continually returned to and developed his ideas about signs and semiotic and there are three broadly delineable accounts: a concise Early Account from the 1860s; a complete and relatively neat Interim Account developed through the 1880s and 1890s and presented in 1903; and his speculative, rambling, and incomplete Final Account developed between
Peirce's Theory of Signs Atkin, Albert 2006
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The whole body is pretty transparent, so that being look'd on against the light, divers motions within its body may be perceived; as also all the parts are much more plainly delineable, then in other postures, to the light.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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So I think there are a number of factors that lead us to kind of lead us to set on this outlook at this time and we really can't give you anything that would be more delineable than that, but I actually think that's quite a pretty robust list.
Healthcare Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha 2009
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