Definition of "determinable" [de•ter•mi•na•ble]

• Capable of being determined, limited, or fixed: determinable velocities. (adjective)
• Law Capable of being settled or decided: matters determinable by common law. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the Meno (74ff), Plato develops the notion of determinable and determinate."
• "There are no such things as ‘true’ objectively determinable works of art."
• "The Dodd-Frank law is so vaguely written that, as former top Fed lawyer Michael Bleier points out, 'the overall economic and financial circumstances in which a hypothetical failure will occur are not determinable, even where many aspects of a firm's structure and operations are': Without knowing what caused the distress leading to the 'failure', it will be difficult for a firm to establish that its resolution plan will actually prevent further distress."