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separable

The English word “separable” has 7 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Able to be separated.
  2. Able to be brought to a form where all occurrences of the dependent and the independent variable are on opposite sides of the equal sign.
  3. Having a countable dense subset.
  4. Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
  5. Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
  6. Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
  7. Satisfying any of several technical conditions on the center of the algebra which generalize the situation of field extensions; see Separable algebra on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology

From Middle English separable, from Middle French separable and its etymon Latin sēparābilis.

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