combinable

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English

Etymology

From combine +‎ -able.

Adjective

combinable (comparative more combinable, superlative most combinable)

  1. Able to be combined.
    Synonyms: mergeable, unitable
    Antonyms: divisible, separable
    • 1922, Aristotle , 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.

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Adjective

combinable (plural combinables)

  1. combinable

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Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kombiˈnable/
  • Rhymes: -able
  • Syllabification: com‧bi‧na‧ble

Adjective

combinable m or f (masculine and feminine plural combinables)

  1. combinable

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