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UK
/ɛksplˈeɪnəbəl/
]
[ US /ɪksˈpɫeɪnəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ɪksˈpɫeɪnəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
capable of being understood
explainable phenomena
How To Use explainable In A Sentence
- But they may be explainable for a more simple reason, other than the lateness of the hour.
- It remained just one of many such unexplainable mysteries of God.
- The film attempts to explain something that is ultimately unexplainable.
- We do stuff in our lives because of so many unexplainable reasons.
- The implication of this claim is that since the ‘golden rule’ is a universally held belief, it must be explainable by purely naturalistic processes.
- Though she could hold the rapt attention of an audience for hours on end with her brilliant wit, all thought it rather odd when she fell into brief lapses of unexplainable, uncouth laughter.
- The unexplainable fact is, the cul-de-sac is of ample size for even a large van to turn round.
- When a puzzle is not explainable through sound, rational argument then perforce we need to look at the less rational domain.
- Thus, while the episode operates as a scene of instruction for the eponymous protagonist, the particular and necessarily stable sense of things on which Knightley’s instructions are predicated, is ultimately insufficient in dispelling a “social density that is unsortable, unexplainable, and [...] unanswerable to any discursive formation.” Introduction to the Forum on the Box Hill
- When I don't understand a magic trick I set out to reveal its explanation because it doesn't fit my theory of the universe as a logical and explainable place.