isolatable

Adjective

isolatable (comparative more isolatable, superlative most isolatable)

1. Able to be clearly separated from others; distinguishable.
   • If gender identify were isolatable from class and race identity, if sexism were isolatable from classism and racism, we could talk about relations between men and women and never have to worry about whether their race or class were the same or different.1991, Johnnella E. Butler, John Christopher Walter, Transforming the Curriculum: Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies, page 201
   • Rationalists think of actors as situated withn a multitude of isolatable variables that feed into a person's decision calculus. Human beings, however, do not think of themselves as facing a heap of disconnected variables; rather, they are aware of the rules and relationships within which they make...2009, Mark I. Lichbach, Is Rational Choice Theory All of Social Science?, page 102
2. Able to be placed in isolation; able to be put in a state free from outside influence.
   • A can transfer valve device comprising a housing having a vertical conduit therein for the passage of the cans by gravity action, there being an inlet opening for the cans at the top end of this conduit, a pair of vertically spaced valve plates slidable within the housing and across the conduit to...1938 January 4, Herbert Dan Galvin, “Cooking, Heating, or Like Apparatus for Treating Tins of Food or Other Articles”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 159
   • If, for example, the small break LOCA were to occur in a location where the break were isolatable by operator action to close a valve, then the threat to the vessel would be greater due to ( a ) repressurization to full system pressure and (b) no credit could be taken for the ameliorating effect of...1984, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Unresolved Safety Issues: Pressurized Thermal Shock, page 428
3. Able to be extracted in pure form.
   • Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive.1957, Communicationes Veterinariae - Volumes 1-3, page 52
   • The recently determined atomic structure of the intact myosin head, however, indicates that there is little correlation between any structural domains of the head and the well-studied 25, 50, and 20 KDA isolatable subdomains.1996, Shuryo Nakai, H. Wayne Modler, Food Proteins: Properties and Characterization, page 60