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Definition of Admissible

1. Adjective. Deserving to be admitted. "Admissible evidence"

Definition of Admissible

1. a. Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

Definition of Admissible

1. Adjective. capable or deserving to be admitted, accepted or allowed; allowable, permissible, acceptable ¹

2. Adjective. (artificial intelligence) Describing a heuristic that never overestimates the cost of reaching a goal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Admissible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Admissible

Literary usage of Admissible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"The court said: " Similar fraudulent acts are admissible in cases of this description if committed at or about the same time, and when the same motive may ..."

2. A Practical Treatise of the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs, in Civil by Thomas Starkie (1891)
"An admission by the party's attorney on record, in a letter written before the action, is not admissible without proof of authority (c). ATTORNMENT. ..."

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"C. (NY) 611 ; but a map of public land, made by a public surveyor and duly certified and filed in a public office under a statute, is admissible for that ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"If, therefore, the defendant, being sued for £100, should offer the plaintiff £20, this is not admissible in evidence, for it is irrelevant to the issue; ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"68, the court was divided upon the question, whether a coroner's inquest, finding a person who had destroyed himself lunatic, was admissible at all as ..."

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