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separable

separable adjective: able to be separated.

Adjective

separable (comparative more separable, superlative most separable)

  1. Able to be separated.
  2. Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
  3. Having a countable dense subset.
  4. Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
    • x²#43;1 is separable, since its roots are i and -i.
  5. (obsolete, Galois theory) Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
  6. (Galois theory) Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
  7. (abstract) Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

separable meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

separable in Bengali

পৃথকীকরণযোগ্য, বিচ্ছিন্ন করা যায় এমন

separable in Malayalam

വേർതിരിച്ചെടുക്കാവുന്ന, വിശ്ലേഷ്യമായ, വിച്ഛേദ്യമായ, വിഭാജ്യമായ, വ്യവച്ഛേദ്യമായ

separable in Kannada

ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕಿಸಬಹುದಾದ, ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದ, ಬೇರ್ಪಡಿಸಬಲ್ಲ, ಅಗಲಿಸಬಲ್ಲ

Examples of separable in a sentence

  • Over a perfect field, the separable polynomials are precisely the square-free polynomials.
  • The study of the automorphisms of splitting fields of separable polynomials over a field is referred to as Galois theory.
  • Components, or what defines the consistency of the concept, its endoconsistency, are distinct, heterogeneous, and yet not separable.

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Synonyms of separable

Antonyms

Forms of separable

comparativemore separable
superlativemost separable

Origin of separable

From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.

Words formed from separable

Phrases with separable

Questions about separable

What does separable mean?
Separable means able to be separated.
What is separable in Bengali?
Separable in Bengali is পৃথকীকরণযোগ্য, বিচ্ছিন্ন করা যায় এমন. See Separable meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is separable?
Separable is an adjective.

Words near separable in the dictionary

  1. sepaloids
  2. sepalous
  3. sepals
  4. separabilities
  5. separability
  6. separable
  7. separable affix
  8. separable affixes
  9. separable extension
  10. separable extensions
  11. separable polynomial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: separable (page history and authors); separable (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); separable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); separable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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