analysability
(ˌænəlaɪzəˈbɪlɪtɪ)
[f. analysable a. + -ility.]
The quality of being analysable.
| 1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World (1926) x. 232 The complexity of an eternal object means its analysability into a relationship of component eternal objects. 1932 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Speech & Lang. iv. §58. 216 The analysability of utterances into subject + predicate cannot be made the touchstone of the sentence. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 56 If the structural analyses that define transformations are restricted to Boolean conditions on Analyzability..it will be impossible to formulate many ‘structure-dependent’ operations as transformations. |