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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to isolate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That can be isolated; specifically, in chem., capable of being obtained pure, or uncombined with any other substance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state.
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- adjective Able to be
isolated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being isolated or disjoined
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Examples
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Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.
Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic Ervin Laszlo 2010
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Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.
Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic Ervin Laszlo 2010
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Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.
Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic Ervin Laszlo 2010
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Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.
Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic Ervin Laszlo 2010
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Today's looming climate, ecology, energy, and nuclear threats are not isolable into narrow specialty areas, and are not manageable by economic and fiscal measures alone.
Ervin Laszlo: The G-20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic Ervin Laszlo 2010
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That leaves us with the idea that modules might be isolable function-specific processing systems, all or almost all of which are domain specific (in the content [viz. roughly Fodorian] sense), whose operations aren't subject to the will, which are associated with specific neural structures (albeit sometimes spatially dispersed ones), and whose internal operations may be inaccessible to the remainder of cognition.
Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009
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Shortly thereafter I prepared the first isolable terminal methylene complex, the structure of which was solved by Lloyd Guggenberger.
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Neither it nor mahanyelo conveys the sense of one person's experiences as a discrete package, an abstract isolable entity with a beginning, middle, and end.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Social Security is not an isolable issue, discussions of whether Bush deficits are affordable as a share of GDP or whether the yield curve inversion is a product of Dark Matter which ignore the very real possibility that Social Security will continue to be a net buyer of bonds in 2017 - or not - seem odd to me.
Comments on Social Security Projections versus Reality by Bruce Webb 2007
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The Leslie Southwick issue per se has the advantage of being isolable from the larger issue.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fred Thompson on the Leslie Southwick Nomination, 2007
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