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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Separable \Sep"a*ra*ble\, a. [L. separabilis: cf. F.
     s['e]parable.]
     Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided;
     as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable
     from the substance in which they exist. --
     {Sep"a*ra*ble*ness}, n. -- {Sep"a*ra*bly}, adv.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a
           yellow tincture from gold.               --Boyle.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  separable
       adj : capable of being divided or dissociated; "often drugs and
             crime are not dissociable"; "the siamese twins were not
             considered seperable"; "a song...never conceived of as
             severable from the melody"; [syn: {dissociable}, {severable}]

















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