Discoverable
[dɪs'kʌvərəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
Editor: Vince
Examples
- Only one or two copies of this journal are now discoverable, but its appearance can be judged from the reduced facsimile here shown. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But no connexions among distinct existences are ever discoverable by human understanding. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I am aware that it is so prominent as to be discoverable immediately. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Three of these relations are discoverable at first sight, and fall more properly under the province of intuition than demonstration. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- True, this man may perhaps have a certain indescribable charm about him, a _je ne sais quoi_, which may not be discoverable at the first glance! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Editor: Vince