separable
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• adjective
Capable of being separated, divided, or detached from something else, either physically or conceptually.
"The laptop features a separable keyboard that allows it to function as a standalone tablet."
(Of a multi-word verb or compound word) having components that can be placed apart from one another within a sentence by intervening words.
"In German grammar, many prefix verbs are separable, with the prefix moving to the very end of the main clause."
(In topology) designating a topological space that contains a countable, dense subset.
"Every finite-dimensional Euclidean space is separable because the set of points with rational coordinates is countable and dense."
• Rhymes for separable
Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French separable or directly from Latin separabilis, derived from separare ('to pull apart, divide'), a compound of se- ('apart') and parare ('to make ready, prepare').