ATTRIBUTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attributable mean? 

• ATTRIBUTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective ATTRIBUTABLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being attributed

  Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRIBUTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being attributed

Context example:

an idea attributable to a Russian

Similar:

ascribable; due; imputable; referable (capable of being assigned or credited to)

credited ((usually followed by 'to') given credit for)

traceable ((usually followed by 'to') able to be traced to)

Attribute:

ascription; attribution (assigning to a cause or source)

Antonym:

unattributable (not attributable)

Derivation:

attribute (attribute or credit to)

 Context examples 

Causes of death attributable to accidents or their adverse events.

(Accidents and Adverse Effects, NCI Thesaurus)

Fluid accumulation in multiple fetal anatomic cavities attributable to a maternal immune response against fetal blood cell antigens.

(Immune Hydrops Fetalis, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder of blood clotting that is attributable to a deficiency in liver function.

(Coagulation Disorder due to Liver Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)

The blockage of bowel contents from evacuation; the causes are attributable to non-structural impediments, such as chemical imbalances or the side effects of medications, narcotics in particular.

(Functional Bowel Obstruction, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes of death attributable to homicide or resulting from legal police intervention.

(Homicide and Legal Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

It is attributable to a medical etiology and excludes a primary psychiatric cause.

(Organic Brain Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

Conversely, the association between poultry intake and diabetes risk became null, suggesting that this risk was attributable to the heme-iron content in poultry.

(Eating Meat Linked to Higher Risk of Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I am therefore willing to believe that she was in a fit when we found her under the boiler; and that the deficient tea-spoons were attributable to the dustman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It is a derivative of marginal periodontitis and commonly associated with suprabony and infrabony pockets and interradicular involvements, in contrast to periapical abscess which is attributable to pulp necrosis.

(Periodontal Abscess, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is often caused by a dorsal midbrain neoplasm, commonly a pinealoma, but may also be attributable to demyelinating diseases or stroke.

(Parinaud Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)