combinable
English
Etymology
Adjective
combinable (comparative more combinable, superlative most combinable)
- Able to be combined.
- 1922, Aristotle [in translation], De Caelo:
- For instance, liquids are the most 'combinable' of all bodies — because, of all divisible materials, the liquid is most readily adaptable in shape, unless it be viscous.
- 2022 June 1, Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein, Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 86:
- Candidate tasks cannot be too difficult or too easy, but they have to be divisible or combinable, so that they can be broken down into smaller chunks that can be solved independently by a potentially large group of contributors.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
able to be combined
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References
- “combinable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
French
Pronunciation
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Adjective
combinable (plural combinables)
Further reading
- “combinable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kombiˈnable/ [kõm.biˈna.β̞le]
- Rhymes: -able
- Syllabification: com‧bi‧na‧ble
Adjective
combinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural combinables)
Further reading
- “combinable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024