Meaning & use
Testable
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Capable of being tested or verified through observation or experiment.
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A good scientific hypothesis must be testable and falsifiable.
The engineers redesigned the circuit to make each component individually testable.
A note on using this word
In science, testability is often treated as a key requirement for a claim to be taken seriously, following philosopher Karl Popper's criterion of falsifiability.
Words with a similar meaning
verifiableprovable
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Words with an opposite meaning
untestable
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