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Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.

The quality of being assignable.

A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.

Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.

Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given to variables as infinitesimal.

A quantity greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind.

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.

Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.

Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to something else; assignable; ascribable. [Written also referrible.] It is a question among philosophers, whether all the attractions which obtain between bodies are referable to one general cause. W. Nicholson.