Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Possible to specify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be specified; capable of being distinctly named or stated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting specification; capable of being specified.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
specified
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective capable of being specified
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Examples
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Stereochemical properties may allow for codons and amino acids to bind in specifiable patterns but this fact alone is causally inadequate to account for the binding we observe within the system enabling gene expression.
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More specifically I don't like the absence of clarity linking remedies to specifiable outcomes.
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A theory T is defined to be decidable if there is an effective procedure of deciding whether any given sentence s belongs to T, (where an 'effective procedure' is generally defined to be a finitely-specifiable sequence of algorithmic steps).
Theories of Everything and Godel's theorem Gordon McCabe 2009
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But the point is there are no mixtures and reactions indicating that chemically based codes necessarily result from specifiable conditions and identifiable substances.
Attached to Strings 2009
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But the point is there are no mixtures and reactions indicating that chemically based codes necessarily result from specifiable conditions and identifiable substances.
Attached to Strings 2009
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A theory T is defined to be decidable if there is an effective procedure of deciding whether any given sentence s belongs to T, (where an 'effective procedure' is generally defined to be a finitely-specifiable sequence of algorithmic steps).
Archive 2009-06-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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An origin which is almost totally speculative with respect to specifiable chemical reactions needed to yield a code.
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I would hope the one hypothesizing and incorporating a selection paradigm into theory, would have some specifiable concept as to what it is that is replicating.
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Bradford: I would hope the one hypothesizing and incorporating a selection paradigm into theory, would have some specifiable concept as to what it is that is replicating.
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Andrew King and Jim Kuypers: "The strategic use of communication, oral or written, to achieve specifiable goals."
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