investigable

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adjective

Capable of being investigated or studied.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveinvestigable (comparative more investigable, superlative most investigable)

comparative more investigable · superlative most investigable

  1. human sciencesCapable of being investigated or studied.

    This, of course, leaves aside those in value theory who maintain that values are not investigable by science.

    1954, James Bates, “A Model for the Science of Decision”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 21, number 4, page 336
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    Indeed it is only possible to learn any thing at all of these really curious and interesting aboriginal people, by cross-examining living men, and ascertaining what they remember to have heard their fathers or their grandfathers say. The period which goes back beyond this very brief depth of reliable and investigable tradition is an absolute blank.

    1869, Dr. Mann, “Statistical Notes Regarding the Colony of Natal”, in Journal of the Statistical Society of London, volume 32, number 1, page 3

    The Paris population might hold bacteriological and epidemiological secrets, but to Yersin they were investigable and knowable ones.

    2003, J. Andrew Mendelsohn, "The Microscopist of Modern Life," Osiris, 2nd series, vol. 18, p. 159

Origin

  1. Latininvestigabilis
  2. Englishinvestigable

From Latin investigabilis.

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Translations

Portuguese investigável, averiguável
  • investigávelcapable of being investigated
  • averiguávelcapable of being investigated
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