Meanings
- not comparableCapable of being explored.
plural explorables
- rareThat which can be explored; a subject for exploration.
[…] this preconceived notion necessarily makes it impossible for many archaeologists, especially those who trained in the Western intellectual environment to explore the explorables.
2004, Samuel Oluwole Ogundele, Rethinking West African Archaeology, page 1291 more example
The way to recover a truly elementary education (one which provides, nourishes and liberates the elements) is through the same experimental curiosities as to how language works which give the child speech. But when he comes to writing let us give him sequenced explorables — to sustain and encourage in him the concept of an intelligible world.
1968, Ivor Armstrong Richards, So Much Nearer: Essays Toward a World English, page 265 - abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of explorable explanation.
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
Translations
Catalan explorable
- explorablecapable of being explored
Czech prozkoumatelný
- prozkoumatelnýcapable of being explored
French explorable
- explorablecapable of being explored
Greek πασπατευτός
- πασπατευτός (paspateftós)capable of being explored
Portuguese explorável
- explorávelcapable of being explored
Cite this entry
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