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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
demonstrable
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ There is a demonstrable link between smoking and lung cancer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As soon as the economy downshifted, information age companies without demonstrable links to other business enterprises were the first to decline.
▪ Du Bois's victory is demonstrable today.
▪ Each concluded that there was no demonstrable basis for concern about independence and therefore they recommended no special action.
▪ However, there is a demonstrable lack of systematic information in this area.
▪ In conclusion, our study confirms that perinuclear antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies are indeed demonstrable in the large majority of ulcerative colitis patients.
▪ Interestingly enough, caffeine does have some demonstrable effects that, at least theoretically, could help dieters.
▪ Most companies insist on demonstrable quality management procedures before they will contract work at all.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demonstrable

Demonstrable \De*mon"stra*ble\, a. [L. demonstrabilis: cf. OF. demonstrable, F. d['e]montrable.]

  1. Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question.

    The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry.
    --Glanvill.

  2. Proved; apparent. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
demonstrable

c.1400, from Latin demonstrabilis, from demonstrare (see demonstration). Related: Demonstrably.

Wiktionary
demonstrable

a. able to be demonstrated

WordNet
demonstrable

  1. adj. necessarily or demonstrably true; "demonstrable truths" [syn: incontrovertible]

  2. capable of being demonstrated or proved; "obvious lies"; "a demonstrable lack of concern for the general welfare"; "practical truth provable to all men"- Walter Bagehot [syn: provable]

Usage examples of "demonstrable".

Sometimes it is quite demonstrable that an author inserts a deeper symbolism than he knows - or even understands.

To get out from under, an accumulated surplus balance of several trillions had to be unloaded quickly, and it had to be done somehow for the demonstrable benefit of mankind.

I don't want it backfiring at the wrong time, when some of the basic research now in progress becomes demonstrable.

The carriage and wagons formed a semicircle in front of the conical hill which contained if not the legendary Wu, then at the very least a monarch of demonstrable antiquity, since the mound was covered with that symbol of majesty the dwarf pine, which takes a thousand years to mature into those graceful hieratic shapes that Cathayans admire.

My only demonstrable talents were for fucking off and having fun-it was time I started playing to my strengths.

It seems to me demonstrable that their influence has been profound, and that, without understanding the theory of inheritance, it is impossible to understand the theory of transfer inter vivos.

While promising a philosophical system as rational, demonstrable and scientific as mathematics, Descartes began with the basic epistemological premise of every Witch Doctor (a premise he shared explicitly with Augustine): “.

It was a strange but demonstrable fact that the sacks of toys carried by the Hogfather, no matter what they really contained, always appeared to have sticking out of the top a teddy bear, a toy soldier in the kind of colourful uniform that would stand out in a disco, a drum and a red-and-white candy cane.