Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being demonstrated or proved.
- adjective Obvious or apparent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being demonstrated; susceptible of being proved beyond doubt or contradiction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.
- adjective obsolete Proved; apparent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
demonstrated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective necessarily or demonstrably true
- adjective capable of being demonstrated or proved
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Examples
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He said more than 1,000 hostages were released thanks to the intervention of Mr. Berezovsky, who he described as a "demonstrable friend to British interests."
Russian Oligarch Seeks to Distance Himself From Rival Guy Chazan 2011
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But “bias,” an inner state of mind, can be readable and provable only in demonstrable outward expressions.
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That there is such a middle Being, is as demonstrable from the Principles of sound reason, as that there is a God.
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy 1692
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It should be demonstrable, that is, it should use data that is resistant to criticism
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It should be demonstrable, that is, it should use data that is resistant to criticism
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It should be demonstrable, that is, it should use data that is resistant to criticism.
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Discrediting the idea of demonstrable truth would be the sought after effect of introducing ID into public education.
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Discrediting the idea of demonstrable truth would be the sought after effect of introducing ID into public education.
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It seems almost ridiculous, or at least unnecessary, to talk about "demonstrable" results (let alone successes) from that package when the economy has so visibly deteriorated since its passage.
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I think it's a kind of demonstrable pandering, the likes of which I have rarely seen, even in presidential politics.
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