breakable
Britishadjective
noun
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International aviation safety guidelines state that such navigation structures should be made of frangible, or breakable, material -- a recommendation not followed at the Muan airport.
From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025
Officials added that Muan International Airport's existing concrete mounds would be removed entirely and the localiser "reinstalled using breakable structures".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
Publishing in Polymer Chemistry, they made a series of polymer gels with breakable bonds incorporated into different parts of the structure, and tested whether the properties changed after the gel was degraded and reformed.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
Submissions, on the whole, must be measurable, breakable and provable.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2023
The warmth of dark energies that drew me to The Mecca, that drew out Prince Jones, the warmth of our particular world, is beautiful, no matter how brief and breakable.
From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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