determinable

See also: déterminable

English

Etymology

determine +‎ -able

Adjective

determinable (comparative more determinable, superlative most determinable)

1. able to be determined or limited
2. (law) able to be decided or settled by law
3. (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

Antonyms

• indeterminable
• undeterminable

Derived terms

• determinableness
• fee simple determinable
• predeterminable
• term of years determinable

 

Related terms

• determinability
• determinably

Translations

able to be determined or limited

• German: bestimmbar (de)
• Italian: precisabile (it)
• Latvian: noteicams, konstatējams
• Portuguese: determinável

Noun

determinable (plural determinables)

1. (philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
   • 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:

     It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are.

Spanish

Adjective

determinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural determinables)

1. determinable

Further reading

• “determinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014