Synonyms for operable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : op-er-uh-buh l, op-ruh-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɒp ər ə bəl, ˈɒp rə-


Définition of operable

Origin :
  • 1640s, "practicable," from operate + -able, or else from Late Latin operabilis. Surgical sense, "capable of treatment by operation," recorded by 1904. Related: Operability.
  • adj possible
Example sentences :
  • In the second case the cancer is operable and the child is viable.
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley
  • Their condition varies, but many are operable, or could easily be made so.
  • Extract from : « The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design » by Leonard S. Hobbs.
  • How could this principle be unified through all branches of science and reduced to an operable law?
  • Extract from : « Queed » by Henry Sydnor Harrison
  • In the first case the supposition is that the case is operable but the child inviable.
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley
  • The Wrights' goal was an operable and reasonably lightweight unit to be obtained quickly and cheaply.
  • Extract from : « The Wright Brothers' Engines and Their Design » by Leonard S. Hobbs.
  • The case is not like that of the woman who has an operable cervical cancer while she is bearing an inviable fetus.
  • Extract from : « The Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation » by Austin O'Malley

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