Dictionary

combinable en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English combine Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English combinable From combine + -able.

Meanings

1. Able to be combined.
   • For instance, liquids are the most 'combinable' of all bodies — because, of all divisible materials, the liquid is most readily adaptable in shape, unless it be viscous. 1922, Aristotle [in translation], De Caelo:
   • Candidate tasks cannot be too difficult or too easy, but they have to be divisible or combinable, so that they can be broken down into smaller chunks that can be solved independently by a potentially large group of contributors. 2022 June 1, Elena Simperl, Roberta Cuel, Martin Stein, Incentive-Centric Semantic Web Application Engineering, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 86:

Forms

Antonyms

divisible · separable

Deriveds

uncombinable · incombinable

Relateds

combine · combinability · combinableness · combinably · compatible

Synonyms

mergeable · unitable

Translations (14)

ja 可合の (able to be combined) · ru объединя́емый (able to be combined) · nl combineerbaar (able to be combined) · ja 結合できる (able to be combined) · fr combinable (able to be combined) · fi yhdisteltävä (able to be combined) · io kombinebla (able to be combined) · el συνδυάσιμος (able to be combined) · ja 合わせられる (able to be combined) · de vereinbar (able to be combined) · de kombinierbar (able to be combined) · es combinable (able to be combined) · ja 合併できる (able to be combined) · ru комбини́руемый (able to be combined)