isolatable

Adjective

1. Able to be isolated.
   • If gender identify were isolatable from class and race identity, if sexism were isolatable from classism and racism, we could talk about relations between men and women and never have to worry about whether their race...
   • Rationalists think of actors as situated withn a multitude of isolatable variables that feed into a person's decision calculus. Human beings, however, do not think of themselves as facing a heap of disconnected...
   • However , in many cases the words are not isolatable for various reasons, e.g. in highly truncated phrases as the ones mentioned in (12). - 2009, Peter Juel Henrichsen, Linguistic Theory and Raw Sound, page 76:

   1. Able to be clearly separated from others; distinguishable.

   2. Able to be placed in isolation; able to be put in a state free from outside influence.

      • A can transfer valve device comprising a housing having a vertical conduit therein for the passage of the cans by gravity action, there being an inlet opening for the cans at the top end of this conduit, a pair of...
      • If, for example, the small break LOCA were to occur in a location where the break were isolatable by operator action to close a valve, then the threat to the vessel would be greater due to ( a ) repressurization to full...
      • The first stage in the methodology is therefore to identify isolatable inventories and the second is to identify the platform areas or modules in which the isolatable inventories exist. - 1992, Major Hazards Onshore and...

   3. Able to be extracted in pure form.

      • Bacillus anthracis: from the first up to the sixth day, this microorganism was isolatable, or in other words still alive. - 1957, Communicationes Veterinariae - Volumes 1-3, page 52:
      • The recently determined atomic structure of the intact myosin head, however, indicates that there is little correlation between any structural domains of the head and the well-studied 25, 50, and 20 KDA isolatable...
      • While practices of cryopreservation are, as we have seen, predicated on the assumption that life is autonomous and isolatable and that it can be extracted out of its lived environment so as to be preserved ex-situ, the...