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separable

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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. Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined: Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure)
  5. Having no repeated roots (where roots are considered in an algebraic closure): Such that none of the irreducible factors of P have a repeated root.
  6. Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined: Such that the minimal polynomial of every element of E is a separable polynomial.
  7. Any of several technical senses relating to the behavior of polynomials or objects over which polynomials can be defined: 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

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