denotable

English

Etymology

From denote +‎ -able.

Adjective

denotable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being denoted or marked.
   • c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:

     in hot regions, and more spread and digested flowers, a sweet savour may be allowed, denotable from several human expressions, and the practice of the ancients, in putting the dried flowers of the vine into new wine […]

   • 2018, Kishori Sharan, Java Language Features:

     JDK9 added support for the diamond operator in anonymous classes if the inferred types are denotable. You cannot use the diamond operator with anonymous classes—even in JDK9—if the inferred types are non-denotable.

Derived terms

• undenotable

 

References

• “denotable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• detonable