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twinnable en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, rare) That can be twinned.
    • Death is always incongruous, for it never throws itself toward life as toward its twin or twinnable other. 2003, Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies:
    • Are buildings that conform to a blueprint twinnable? The immediate answer is no because there are examples conforming to some odd-ball blueprints... 2004, Chat-Yin Ho, Pham Huu Tiep, Finite Groups 2003: Proceedings of the Gainesville Conference on Finite Groups:
    • This is the case in any mechanically twinnable crystal, eg calcite... 1970, Philosophical Magazine: