Indispensible vs Indispensable - What's the difference?
indispensible | indispensable |
* {{quote-journal, 2008, date=March 21, Bernd Buldt, Benedikt Löwe and Thomas Müller, Towards a New Epistemology of Mathematics, Erkenntnis, url=, doi=10.1007/s10670-008-9101-6, volume=68, issue=3, pages=
, passage=However, whereas Van Bendegem and Van Kerkhove conclude by saying that experimental methods and an empirical basis form an indispensible backdrop for mathematical practice, Baker goes the other way and says that the fact that mathematicians use experiments in the context of discovery is “compatible with the view that mathematics is a priori and deductive at its core”. }} (ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.
Absolutely necessary or requisite; that one cannot do without.
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, chapter=2 A thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.
(in the plural, colloquial, dated) Trousers.
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As adjectives the difference between indispensible and indispensable
is that indispensible is misspelling of lang=en while indispensable is not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules.As a noun indispensable is
a thing that is not dispensable; a necessity.indispensible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)indispensable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The law was moral and indispensable . -Bp. Burnet
- An indispensable component of a heart-healthy diet.
citation, passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}
