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Webster 1913 Edition


Classifiable

Clas′si-fiˊa-ble

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Adj.
Capable of being classified.

Definition 2024


classifiable

classifiable

English

Adjective

classifiable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be classified.
    • 1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days, Chapter 7,
      Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.
    • 2001, Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, p. 378,
      The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.

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