单词 | eliminable |
释义 | eliminableadj. Chiefly Logic and Philosophy. Able to be eliminated. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > capable of being neglected or disregarded disregardable1661 skippable1820 negligible1841 eliminable1857 negligeable1876 neglectable1878 1857 Sat. Rev. 1 Aug. 105/2 We make no progress towards the justification of the Office of Works for cutting up the designs and for eliminating all the eliminable portions. 1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 258 Its being eliminable by right apprehension, on the ground of its falseness, is thus established. 1907 C. E. de M. Sajous Internal Secretions & Princ. Med. II. xxviii. 1676 The toxic and acid wastes are freely drained into the blood-stream and transformed into eliminable products. 1949 A. Pap Elem. Analyt. Philos. xv. 392 A criterion of a translation is that the translated expression is, through the translation, rendered eliminable. 2000 Econ. & Philos. 16 101 Disreputable references to unobservable preferences are eliminable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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