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durable

adj
/ˈdʊɹəbəl/US/ˈdjʊəɹəbəl/UK/ˈdʒʊəɹəbəl/

Etymology

From Middle English durable, from Old French durable, from Latin dūrābilis (“lasting, permanent”), from dūrō (“harden, make hard”).

  1. derived from dūrābilis
  2. derived from durable
  3. inherited from durable

Definitions

  1. Able to resist wear or decay

    Able to resist wear or decay; lasting; enduring.

    • Near-synonyms: persistent, long-lasting, lasting, hard-wearing; see also Thesaurus:lasting
    • durable batteries
    • I forged a durable relationship with my seatmate.

  2. A durable thing, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.

    • In a frictionless world with perfect rental markets, there is an unambiguous cost associated with the use of a durable for a single period.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at durable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at durable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at durable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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