inseparable
B2Meanings
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1
adj
not capable of being separated
inseparable pieces of rock
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2
adj
Unable to be separated; bound together permanently.
People of unalterable ideas still insisted upon calling him "Sergeant" when they met him, which was in some degree owing to his having still retained the well-shaped moustache of his military days, and the soldierly bearing inseparable from his form.
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noun
Something that cannot be separated from something else.
Jayanta does so in answering an opponent who declares that the very idea of a relation between two inseparables is self-contradictory. How can inseparability and relation be reconciled?
Etymology
From Middle English, from Middle French inséparable, from Latin īnsēparābilis. Constructed as in- + separable.
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