isolatableadj.
/ˈʌɪsəleɪtəbl/, U.S. /ˈaɪsəˌleɪdəbəl/ = isolable adj.
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the world > matter > chemistry > chemical admixture or isolation > [adjective] > isolable
isolablea1855
isolatable1936
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > isolated > able to be
isolablea1855
isolatable1936
1936 Chem. Abstr. 30 6354 G[rundmann] has attempted to apply the reaction to certain substituted phenols in order to obtain aliphatic polyene polycarboxylic acids, o-Coumaric acid gave, as the only isolatable product, I in very small amt.
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) ii. 60 The morphemes cran-, rasp-, and cray- are isolatable because the elements berry and fish occur in isolation or in other combinations.
1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 198 Romance, like Comedy, has six isolatable phases.
1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics vii. 277 The bound morpheme..is likely to be a much less semantically isolatable unit.
1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 169 Personality is the name for something that is not ‘time-bound’: that is, it is not an event that occurs in a limited period of time and is not isolatable in the way other categories are.
Derivatives
ˌisolataˈbility n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun] > separation or isolation > ability to be isolated
isolatability1949
1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) 59 On the basis of the first condition of isolatability we may identify as morphemes such forms as boy, cow..since it is possible to utter..these forms in isolation.
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