Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Capable of being determined, limited, or fixed: Describes something that can be definitively ascertained, established, or settled. It implies the existence of criteria, methods, or authority to reach a conclusive finding.
   • Capable of being decided by law: In a legal context, it describes an issue or matter that can be resolved or adjudicated within the framework of the law.

Usage Examples

• General Use:
  • The exact cost of the project is not yet determinable. (The final, fixed cost cannot be definitively established yet.)
  • Scientists searched for determinable patterns in the data. (Scientists looked for patterns that could be conclusively identified and fixed.)
• Legal Use:
  • The rights of the parties are determinable by the terms of the contract. (The rights can be definitively settled by referring to the contract.)
  • Whether the action was negligent is a matter determinable in court. (The question of negligence is an issue that can be conclusively decided by legal proceedings.)

Advanced Usage

• "Easily determinable": Capable of being found out or fixed with little difficulty.
  • The cause of the error was easily determinable from the log files.
• "Finite and determinable life": (Often in accounting/finance) An asset's useful life that has a known, limited, and fixed duration.
  • The company amortizes intangible assets with finite and determinable lives.

Variants and Related Words

• Determine (verb): To conclusively ascertain, decide, or establish.
  • The committee will determine the final policy.
• Determination (noun): The act of determining or the result of such an act; a firm decision.
  • Her determination to succeed was admirable.
• Determinate (adjective): Having defined limits; definite. Often implies a fixed, predetermined nature.
  • The plant has a determinate growth pattern.
• Indeterminable (adjective): Incapable of being determined, settled, or fixed. (The direct opposite of ).
  • The debate on that philosophical point seems indeterminable.

Synonyms

• Ascertainable: Capable of being discovered with certainty.
• Definable: Capable of being precisely described or fixed in meaning.
• Resolvable: Capable of being solved, settled, or decided.
• Decidable: (Especially in logic/law) Capable of being decided or adjudicated.

Antonyms

• Indeterminable: Not able to be determined.
• Uncertain: Not able to be known for sure; not fixed.
• Vague: Of uncertain or indefinite character.
• Incalculable: Too great to be calculated or estimated; unpredictable.

Adjective

1. capable of being determined or limited or fixed
   • determinable velocities
   • matters determinable by law