Crossword clues for testable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Testable \Test"a*ble\, a. [See Testament.]
Capable of being tested or proved.
Capable of being devised, or given by will.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Susceptible to being tested. 2 With respect to the scientific method, capable of being proven true or false. 3 (context legal English) Capable of being devised, or given by will.
Usage examples of "testable".
The theoretical tools of quantum mechanics and general relativity allow us to understand and make testable predictions about physical happenings from the atomic and subatomic realms all the way through phenomena occurring on the scales of galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and beyond to the structure of the whole universe itself.
After experimental particle physicists fastidiously measure these data, theorists can then use the standard model to make testable predictions, such as what should happen when particular particles are slammed together in an accelerator.
With physicists exploring powerful quantum methods, the implications of which gave rise to experimentally testable predictions, there was little interest in the mere possibility that the universe might be a vastly different place on length scales far too small to be probed by even the most powerful of instruments.
And since the physical consequences of string theory depend sensitively on the precise form of the curled-up dimensions, without the ability to select one Calabi-Yau space from the many, no definitive experimentally testable conclusions can be drawn.
Undoubtedly, significant theoretical progress will continue, but will it be sufficient to overcome present hurdles and yield definitive, experimentally testable predictions?
Today, some 15 billion or so years after the bang, we can marvel at both the magnificence of the cosmos and at our collective ability to have pieced together a reasonable and experimentally testable theory of cosmic origin.
On the other hand, a weaker equipotent hypothesis-holding, for example, that memory is a function of the cerebral cortex as a whole -is not so readily dismissible, although it is testable, as we shall see.
There on the lawn, the eve before uncovering the precise, testable tape that will change the way life conceives itself, he feels the first seduction of music, his own pitiful compulsion for forward motion, the insistence that we sing ourselves over into a further place.
One of the most powerful ideas in the infant science: the power of the traceable, testable blit.
It only has to contain a testable guess about being alive, the incomprehensible ability.
As near as I could determine, there was nothing so unusual about Dennis that it would register as a statistical anomaly in a repeatable testable circumstance.
Connie now needs only to receive these barren sisters, apply the sacred rites, and furtively pray that the Fourth Lateran Council was indeed guided by the Holy Spirit when it undertook to bring the baptismal process into the age of testable destinies and ovarian surveillance.
On the other hand, a weaker equipotent hypothesis-holding, for example, that memory is a function of the cerebral cortex as a whole -is not so readily dismissible, although it is testable, as we shall see.
Some aspects of some belief systems are testable, of course - the Grand Canyon is not evidence for Noah's flood, unless God is having a quiet joke at our expense, which admittedly would be a very Discworld thing to do.