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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

referable
    adj 1: capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation
           errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the
           cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the
           oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: ascribable,
           due, imputable, referable]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Referable \Ref"er*a*ble\ (r?f"?r*?*b'l), a.
   Capable of being referred, or considered in relation to
   something else; assignable; ascribable. [Written also
   referrible.]
   [1913 Webster]

         It is a question among philosophers, whether all the
         attractions which obtain between bodies are referable
         to one general cause.                    --W.
                                                  Nicholson.
   [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for Referable:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accountable, affinitive, alleged, appertaining, ascribable, assignable, associative, attributable, attributed, charged, comparable, comparative, congenial, connective, correlative, credited, derivable from, derivational, derivative, due, en rapport, explicable, imputable, imputed, linking, owing, pertaining, pertinent, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, putative, referred to, referring, relating, relational, relative, sympathetic, traceable

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