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resolvable, a.|rɪˈzɒlvəb(ə)l|
Also 7–8 -veable.
[f. resolve v. + -able. Cf. resolvible.]
Capable of being resolved, in various senses of the verb.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 316 The causes [are] surely best resolvable from observations made in the Countries themselves. 1688Norris Love i. v. 60 All Love is not, as some pretend, resolvable into Self-love. 1755Young Centaur ii. Wks. 1757 IV. 159 Want of faith. All is resolveable into that alone. 1770Phil. Trans. LX. 435 The force of every particle, which impinges obliquely, is resolvable into two. 1816Gilchrist Philos. Etym. p. xxi, All words are resolvable into a few primitives. 1877E. R. Conder Bas. Faith ii. 55 Bold surmise..asks whether atoms may not themselves be resolvable into force.
b. resolvable nebula, a nebula which admits of resolution by a powerful telescope.
1785Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 251 Clusters of stars also may become resolvable nebulæ. 1853Whewell Plur. Worlds 90 When we have thus to reckon as many galaxies as there are resolvable nebulae. 1870Proctor Other Worlds xii. (1872) 291 The stellar nebulæ—resolvable and irresolvable.
Hence reˈsolvableness (Bailey, vol. II, 1727). |