rangeable

From range +‎ -able.

rangeable (comparative more rangeable, superlative most rangeable)

1. (obsolete) Arrangeable; classifiable.
   • 1766, James Elphinston, The principles of the English Language digested:

     Here we see them no less rangeable into opposites of direction or locality; by which contrast their several powers may prove best understood.

   • 1823 March, John Mason Good, “The Study of Medicine”, in The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, volume 3, page 814:

     Jurine and Desportes, who have written two excellent dissertations on angina pectoris, consider the disease as attributable to functional disorder of the heart and lungs, and as rangeable among the neuroses.

   • 1872, John Ruskin, Munera pulveris:

     For as, whatever the perfectness of the educational system, there must remain infinite differences between the natures and capacities of men ; and these differing natures are generally rangeable under the two qualities of lordly, (or tending towards rule, construction, and harmony), and senile (or tending towards misrule, destruction, and discord) ; and, since the lordly part is only in a state of profitableness while ruling, and the servile only in a state of redeemableness while serving, the whole health of the state depends on the manifest separation of these two elements of its mind; for, if the servile part be not separated and rendered visible in service, it mixes with, and corrupts, the entire body of the state; and if the lordly part be not distinguished, and set to rule, it is crushed and lost, being turned to no account, so that the rarest qualities of the nation are all given to it in vain.

   • 1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:

     He couldn't describe and dismiss them collectively, call them either Mid-Victorian or Early; not being at all sure they were rangeable under one rubric.

2. Varying within a range.
   • 1862, George Hogarth Makins, A Manual of Metallurgy, more particularly of the precious metals, but including such others as are employed in dental practice:

     The colour most prevailing in metals passes through all shades of white, of which the pure white of silver may be taken as the starting-point, and the blue white of lead the farthest remove from it; all otheres, with three exceptions, being rangeable between these two shades.

   • 1892, The Sanitarian - Volume 28, page 15:

     The real factors, it must be admitted in the long run, of our premature mortality, of our lean physique and peculiar American temperaments, are, after all, our variable and extremely rangeable climate?

   • 2007, Catherine Atherton, The Stoics on Ambiguity, →ISBN, page 371:

     This difference in the description of the species, and the lack of agreement as to whether the rangeable Parts are all Non-significant, are worth noting, for they constitute evidence of a genuine Stoic debate, and serve as a reminder (like the apparently distinct approaches to Elleipsis and Pleonasm) that there was no single, authoritative Stoic classification.

   • 2013, William L. Luyben, Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation, →ISBN, page 13-42:

     The most common is a low limit on vapor flow rate below which weeping can adversely affect tray efficiency and separation. The vapor limit depends on tray design, with valve trays being the most rangeable.

3. Able to be ranged or explored.
   • 1882, Sandford Fleming, Letter to the President of the American Society for the Advancement of Science on the Subject of Standard Time for the United States of America, Canada and Mexico:

     The whole extent of 6.900 miles is, with proper enterprise, rangeable, except across the Mediterranean and Black Seas, and affords a greater number of eligible positions for connected observations than can elsewhere he found.

   • 1884, What Shall be the Prime Meridian for the World?, page 16:

     Like the great Russian arc, its stretch of over 4,200 miles is rangeable and within a simple chain of feasible triangles.

   • 2013, Joshua S. Walden, Representation in Western Music, →ISBN, page 306:

     Runnable fields, swimmable water, a rangeable universe - that is music.

4. Having an adjustable range.
   • 1988, Journal A.: Revue A. Tijdschrift A. Zeitschrift A - Volume 29, page 191:

     User rangeable from -70° C to + 515°C.

   • 1991, InTech - Volume 38, page 34:

     Our 2-wire temperature transmitters are field rangeable.

   • 1993, Control Engineering - Volume 40, Issues 8-13, page 30:

     . The 53ML5100 Manual Loader is a 2 channel manual loading station with rangeable I/O and scalable displays.

   • 1994, Oil & Gas Journal - Volume 105, Issue 39, page 67:

     The DM4130 field rangeable transmitter conditions signals from any thermocouple type and provides linearization for seven popular types.

5. (computing) Supporting the use of ranges.
   • 1982, Database - Volumes 5-6, page 82:

     Obviously, the more searchable fields that are available (as opposed to those which are limitable or rangeable), the more bibliometric studies are possible.

   • 1994, Common Command Language for Online Interactive Information Retrieval, →ISBN:

     The form VALUE- (where VALUE means a rangeable search term) specifies a range of values from and including VALUE, and all higher values.

   • 2010, Shay Friedman, IronRuby Unleashed, e-Pub, →ISBN:

     For example, for Fixnum, succ returns the current number plus one. This method is necessary if you want to make your class to work with ranges. To have a “rangeable class,” you must also provide an implementation to the <=> operator (which is what the range uses internally to know when it should stop).

6. Providing information about the corresponding range; indicating territory or source.
   • 1998, Donald H. Owings, Eugene S. Morton, Animal Vocal Communication: A New Approach, →ISBN, page 158:

     Song learning enables singers to one-up listeners under certain circumstances that favor unrangeable songs. Territorial instability will generate selection that favors singers whose locations are not always rangeable, those with songs not in the memories of listeners.

   • 2001, Dissertation Abstracts International: The sciences and engineering:

     The spotted towhee's fast trill degrades predictably with distance, thus providing listeners with a rangeable signal;

   • 2012, Mark N.O. Davies, Patrick R. Green, Perception and Motor Control in Birds: An Ecological Approach, →ISBN, page 90:

     An alternative approach would be to play back songs which could not be ranged (such as unfamiliar, dissimilar song; see Sect. 4.5) and to compare the timing of the resulting interactions with that during playback of rangeable songs.

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