separable adj 1: capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not considered separable"; "a song...never conceived of as severable from the melody"; [syn: {dissociable}, {separable}, {severable}]
Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F. s['e]parable.] Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- {Sep"a*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sep"a*ra*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster] Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]