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classifiable

adj

Etymology

c. 1800 classify + -able

Definitions

  1. Able to be classified.

    • Everything from a pair of stockings to a human soul was classifiable as 'lovely' or 'beastly'.
    • The classifiers of things, by which I mean those scientists whose science is merely to classify, generally don't realize that what's classifiable is infinite and thus cannot be classified.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for classifiable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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