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CLASSIFIABLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does classifiable mean?
• CLASSIFIABLE (adjective)
The adjective CLASSIFIABLE has 1 sense:
1. capable of being classified
Familiarity information: CLASSIFIABLE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capable of being classified
Synonyms:
classifiable; distinctive
Similar:
identifiable (capable of being identified)
Context examples
Not classifiable to C16.1 to C16.4
(Lesser Curvature of the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus/ICD)
Not classifiable to C16.0 to C16.4
(Greater Curvature of the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus/ICD)
The scale ranges from the highest hazard rating of “known”, followed by “presumed”, then “suspected”, and finally, “not classifiable”.
(Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution, National Institutes of Health)
Clonal proliferations arising in adnexal structures that are not otherwise classifiable.
(Other Adnexal Neoplasms of the Mouse Skin, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)
The dominant colour was grey, and yet there was to it a faint reddish hue—a hue that was baffling, that appeared and disappeared, that was more like an illusion of the vision, now grey, distinctly grey, and again giving hints and glints of a vague redness of colour not classifiable in terms of ordinary experience.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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