combinable

American  

[kuhm-bahy-nuh-buhl] / kəmˈbaɪ nə bəl /

adjective

1. capable of combining or being combined.

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Other Word Forms

• combinability noun
• combinableness noun
• combinably adverb
• uncombinable adjective
• uncombinably adverb

Etymology

Origin of combinable

First recorded in 1740–50; combine + -able

Example Sentences

There are sixteen possible combinations of premisses, each of the four types of proposition being combinable with itself and with each of the others.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

It is also possible, that all combinable bodies, compound as well as simple, may enter into the class of ions; but at present it does not seem to me probable.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Faraday, Michael

The opinion that the pan�ther, as it is best called, is not atomic in its constitution, while all the combinable elements are so, is also gaining ground.

From 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Hartshorne, Henry

Assimilation in plants is the conversion of these inorganic substances—essentially, water, carbonic acid, and some form of combined or combinable nitrogen—into vegetable matter.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Grammar, or something grammatical, also causes the prejudice in people's minds, that the reality of language lies in isolated and combinable words, not in living discourse among expressive organisms, rationally indivisible.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto