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# attributable

«attributable» in Mova's school dictionary: **attributable to a cause, it is caused by it or can be…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (attributable — used with «to»)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) If something is attributable to a cause, it is caused by it or can be said to come from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#m1)

2) (formal) If a saying or work is attributable to a person, that person said or made it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and in the stiff exam voice it links a result to a cause: «The rise is attributable to the heat.» In maths problems it can tell which part of a total comes from which cause. Phrases: «attributable to».

### examples

- The flood was attributable to heavy rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x1)
- Half of the cost is attributable to transport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x2)
- The rise in temperature is attributable to the heater. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x3)
- Most of the noise was attributable to the building work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x4)
- The quote is attributable to a famous writer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x5)
- What fraction of the damage is attributable to the storm? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/#x6)

### note

Formal; in everyday speech say «caused by» or «because of». Always followed by «to». Spelling: at-TRIB-ut-able. Maths: «the amount attributable to X» is the part of the total that comes from X.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «attributable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/attributable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.