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combinable

adj

Etymology

From combine + -able.

  1. derived from con- — “together”
  2. derived from combīnō — “unite, yoke together”
  3. derived from combiner
  4. inherited from combynyn
  5. suffixed as combinable — “combine + able”

Definitions

  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.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA