modifiability
- a word derived from modify.
Example Sentences
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In engineering a system is said to have a large set of attributes: performance, security, modifiability, reliability, usability, etc.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2016
Thinking about the modifiability of intelligence started to change in the 2000s.
From Scientific American • Dec. 2, 2014
In nerve tissue, impressibility, conductivity and modifiability are developed to a marked degree.
From How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Kitson, Harry D.
De Maillet, a contemporary of Newton, has been brought into notice by Professor Huxley as one who 'had a notion of the modifiability of living forms.'
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
"Lastly, if this theory of indefinite modifiability be sound, what meaning can be attached to the term language, and what definition can be given of it so as to distinguish a language from a dialect?"
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
