differentiable

/ˌdɪfəˈrɛnʃiəbəl/
adjective
  1. Capable of being distinguished or recognized as different.
    • In the fog, the shapes were barely differentiable from one another.
    • The two species are differentiable by the color of their feathers.
    • The teacher explained that the twins' voices were easily differentiable.
  2. In mathematics, describing a function that has a derivative at every point in its domain.
    • The calculus student learned to check if a function is differentiable at a given point.
    • A smooth curve represents a differentiable function.
    • Not every continuous function is differentiable.
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