DISTINGUISHABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does distinguishable mean? 

• DISTINGUISHABLE (adjective)
  The adjective DISTINGUISHABLE has 2 senses:

1. capable of being perceived as different or distinct

2. (often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality

  Familiarity information: DISTINGUISHABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISTINGUISHABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being perceived as different or distinct

Context example:

distinguishable differences between the twins

Similar:

differentiable (capable of being perceived as different)

discriminable (capable of being discriminated)

Antonym:

indistinguishable (not capable of being distinguished or differentiated)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality

Synonyms:

distinct; distinguishable

Context example:

management had interests quite distinct from those of their employees

Similar:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

 Context examples 

The interval between two successive cell divisions during which the chromosomes are not individually distinguishable.

(Interphase Process, NCI Thesaurus)

They are morphologically distinguishable from mature granulocytic leukocytes by their large, non-lobed nuclei and lack of coarse, heavily stained cytoplasmic granules.

(Non-Granular Leukocyte, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An esophageal carcinoma characterized by the presence of distinguishable squamous and glandular carcinomatous components.

(Esophageal Adenosquamous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

There is more than one genotypically distinct form, each of which is clinically similar but histologically distinguishable.

(Diffuse Palmoplantar Keratoderma, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A rare autoimmune blistering skin disorder that resembles pemphigus but is histologically and clinically distinguishable by lack of evidence of acantholysis and a generally benign course.

(Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)

Building on earlier work showing that cells can recover from the brink of death, the new study demonstrates that anastasis is an active process composed of two distinguishable stages.

(Cells Back from Brink of Death, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A joyous stir was now audible in the hall: gentlemen's deep tones and ladies' silvery accents blent harmoniously together, and distinguishable above all, though not loud, was the sonorous voice of the master of Thornfield Hall, welcoming his fair and gallant guests under its roof.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Fanny would rather have been silent; but being obliged to speak, she could not forbear, in justice to the aunt she loved best, from saying something in which the words my aunt Norris were distinguishable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A distinguishable part, a stage in a series of events or in a process of development, e.g. any of the varying aspects or stages in course of a disease; a fraction of a cycle.

(Phase, NCI Thesaurus)

I proceeded: at last my way opened, the trees thinned a little; presently I beheld a railing, then the house—scarce, by this dim light, distinguishable from the trees; so dank and green were its decaying walls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)