abstractable, a.
(æbˈstræktəb(ə)l)
Also -ible.
[f. abstract v. + -able.]
Capable of being abstracted, in the senses of the verb.
| 1893 W. James in Mind II. 509 There must be some things whose resemblance is not based on such discernible and abstractable identity. 1943 A. M. Farrer Finite & Infinite viii. 94 The only common properly abstractible form is that of mere numerability. 1958 D. J. Furley in A. D. Booth et al. Aspects of Transl. 64 A poem has meaning in very many different ways..some may be abstractable only at the cost of others. |