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Resolvable

Resolvable \Re*solv"a*ble\ (r?-z?lv"?-b'l), a. [See Resolve, and cf. Resoluble.] Admitting of being resolved; admitting separation into constituent parts, or reduction to first principles; admitting solution or explanation; as, resolvable compounds; resolvable ideas or difficulties.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
resolvable

1640s, from resolve (v.) + -able.

Wiktionary
resolvable

a. able to be resolved.

WordNet
resolvable
  1. adj. possible to solve; "such problems are perfectly solvable" [syn: solvable]

  2. capable of being settled or resolved; "all disputed points are potentially resolvable"; "a resolvable quarrel"

Usage examples of "resolvable".

Granules just resolvable under a very high power soon appear, sometimes within a minute, in the cells beneath the glands.

The rift was not a resolvable rift between two people, it was ideological, between two political philosophies on Mospheira.

We see that all disagreements are resolvable if we will be rational and fair.

The habitual direction of her mind to dealing with things as individuals rather than in groups, and (what is closely connected with it) her more lively interest in the present feelings of persons, which makes her consider first of all, in anything which claims to be applied to practice, in what manner persons will be affected by it -- these two things make her extremely unlikely to put faith in any speculation which loses sight of individuals, and deals with things as if they existed for the benefit of some imaginary entity, some mere creation of the mind, not resolvable into the feelings of living beings.

The first member of this seems resolvable into the first objection before stated.

The formula states that the minimum resolvable object diameter is found as 2.

Everywhere, suns shone steadily, becoming more and more remote until they were no longer resolvable into stars but were only luminosity.