movable

American  

[moo-vuh-buhl] / ˈmu və bəl /

Or moveable

adjective

1. capable of being moved; not fixed in one place, position, or posture.

2. Law. (of property)

   1. not permanent in reference to place; capable of being moved without injury.

   2. personal, as distinguished from real.

3. changing from one date to another in different years.

   a movable holiday.

4. (of type or matrices) able to be rearranged.

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noun

1. an article of furniture that is not fixed in place.

2. Law. Often movables. an article of personal property not attached to land.

movable British  

/ ˈmuːvəbəl /

adjective

1. able to be moved or rearranged; not fixed

2. (esp of religious festivals such as Easter) varying in date from year to year

3. (usually speltmoveable) law denoting or relating to personal property as opposed to realty

4. printing (of type) cast singly so that each character is on a separate piece of type suitable for composition by hand, as founder's type

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noun

1. (often plural) a movable article, esp a piece of furniture

Other Word Forms

• movability noun
• movableness noun
• movably adverb
• nonmovability noun
• nonmovable adjective
• nonmovableness noun
• nonmovably adverb
• unmovable adjective

Etymology

Origin of movable

1350–1400; Middle English mevable, movable < Anglo-French movable. See move, -able

Example Sentences

Bishop placed movable cameras with different focal lengths on opposite sides of the ring to capture the action, almost always with the ropes visible in the foreground.

From Los Angeles Times

Not only has the venturi-underbody ground effect philosophy introduced in 2022 been abandoned, but movable front and rear wings have been introduced.

From BBC

Béchard offers a very long historical perspective of this phenomenon, starting with Gutenberg, whose invention of movable type — “the ChatGPT of the 1450s,” he asserts — ushered in “the mass production of cheap printed material.”

From Los Angeles Times

In normal times, the rich are deeply rooted and not movable.

From Salon

But then within some of the interstitial stuff and the scenes and the comedy and the physicality and the movement, yeah, it’s a movable feast.

From Los Angeles Times