# beable

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈbiː.əbl/

## Definitions
1. anything that could possibly be, in particular in any of a number of superimposed quantum states

## Etymology
From be + -able; coined by Northern Irish physicist John Stewart Bell in 1984 in partial analogy to "observable".

## Source
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