carvability

noun

Etymology

From carve + -ability.

  1. derived from *gerbʰ-
  2. inherited from *kerbaną
  3. inherited from *kerban
  4. inherited from ceorfan
  5. inherited from kerven
  6. suffixed as carvability — “carve + ability

Definitions

  1. The quality of being carvable

    The quality of being carvable; workability with regard to carving.

    • Dentine owes its strength and carvability to its composite nature—pure hydroxylapatite is brittle but cracks in ivory are stopped where they run from the crystals into the organic part of the material.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for carvability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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