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Separable

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to be separated.
  2. 2
    Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
  3. 3
    Having a countable dense subset.
  4. 4
    Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:; Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)

    "x²#43;1 is separable, since its roots are i and -i."

  5. 5
    Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:; Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure); Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root. obsolete
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  1. 6
    Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:; Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
  2. 7
    Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined:; Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia abstract
Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of being divided or dissociated wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.

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