[1655–65; specify + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1655–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: grille, loaded, minimum, neutralize, organism-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'specifiable' in a sentence
specifiable
The transfer object, the technology, must rely on a subjectively determined but specifiable set of processes and products.
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