identifiableadj.

1804 Edinb. Rev. 3 306 They are easily identifiable.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 94 Species identifiable with those now living in the Mediterranean.

1881 C. A. Young Sun (Internat. Sci. Ser.) 82 A given substance is identifiable by its spectrum.

1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World xiv. 306 If the two structures were identifiable then the atom would involve a complete causal connection of the two types of phenomena. But apparently no such causal linkage exists.

1969 V. Bartlett Past of Pastimes iv. 54 There were far more ‘gentlemen’—identifiable by the printing of their initials as well as their surnames—than ‘players’, or professionals.

2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) ii. 49 Whenever we deny to one class of suspects rights that we treat as essential for others, we act unfairly, especially when that class is politically vulnerable, or identifiable racially or by religious or ethnic distinction.

1876 Amer. Naturalist 10 176 The main point at issue..is the recognition of species not identifiably described.

1967 N. Podhoretz Making It i. ii. 30 He was..tolerant of any modality of Jewish existence so long as it remained identifiably and self-consciously Jewish.

2003 T. Desmoyers-Davis Citizenship in Mod. Brit. (ed. 2) i. 8 To try to test an individual's ‘Britishness’ assumes that there is something that is identifiably ‘British’.