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Isolatable

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be isolated.; Able to be clearly separated from others; distinguishable.

    "If gender identify were isolatable from class and race identity, if sexism were isolatable from classism and racism, we could talk about relations between men and women and never have to worry about whether their race or class were the same or different."

  2. 2
    Able to be isolated.; Able to be placed in isolation; able to be put in a state free from outside influence.

    "A can transfer valve device comprising a housing having a vertical conduit therein for the passage of the cans by gravity action, there being an inlet opening for the cans at the top end of this conduit, a pair of vertically spaced valve plates slidable within the housing and across the conduit to define an isolatable portion of the conduit between them, […]"

  3. 3
    Able to be isolated.; Able to be extracted in pure form.

    "Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive."

Etymology

From isolate + -able.

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