Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being surveyed.
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- adjective Able to be
surveyed orobserved .
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Examples
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This is because such proofs are not a priori, not certain, not surveyable, and not checkable by human mathematicians.
Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009
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I've unwittingly enabled this woman, who blames "a craven and soulless media" for, in the words of that dour Danish existentialist Kierkegaard that she approvingly quotes, for reducing everything "into flat, surveyable, two-dimensional world events [so that] we can know exactly what has happened in the last twenty-four hours and what precisely to think about what has happened."
Al Eisele: Arianna: A Greek Tragedy in Only 6,200 Words 2009
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He envies poets, who manage to capture the essential in a single, surveyable form 59-6o.
enowning enowning 2008
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He envies poets, who manage to capture the essential in a single, surveyable form 59-6o.
Archive 2008-12-01 enowning 2008
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Probably the standard view among logicians is that of Russell, according to which definitions are mere abbreviations whose role is to render complex propositions more easily surveyable by feeble humans.
StanisÅaw LeÅniewski Simons, Peter 2007
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The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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The cavern feeling postulates a surveyable history consisting in a beginning and an end to the world, which is also the beginning and end of mankind, and between these terms, “spellbound to the limits of the Cavern and the ordained period,” there ensues the battle between darkness and light, good and evil, the House of Islam and the House of War.
Sands of Empire Robert W. Merry 2005
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Closer to the village of Aglasun, gardens became more common and surveyable areas limited.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Suburban Survey Report 2 2003
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