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appearable

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Etymology

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From appear +‎ -able.

Adjective

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appearable (comparative more appearable, superlative most appearable)

  1. Able to appear; appearing; apparent.
    • 1979, John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, page 250:
      Some of the islands are continents in appearance and in effect from any view to be had of them save only on the map; but by far the greater number are small and appearable as such...
    • 1979, Max Hartmann, Berichte Biochemie und Biologie, volume 485, page 106:
      Template-independent synthesis proceeds with an appearable maximum rate in the presence of one dNTP whose incorporation is inhibited by the addition of the rest dNTP.
    • 2001, IEEE Computer Society, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society, volume 15, page 320:
      We eventually reach a minimum graph where no more appearable snapshot doesn't exist (typically, zero or only one vertex will remain).