frangible
adj/ˈfɹæn(d)ʒɪb(ə)l/UK/ˈfɹænd͡ʒəbəl/US
Etymology
From Late Middle English frangible, frangibil, from Middle French frangible, or from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere (from frangō (“to break, shatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”)) + -ibilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon).
- derived from *bʰreg-✻
- derived from frangere
- derived from frangibilis
- derived from frangible
- inherited from frangible
Definitions
Able to be broken
Able to be broken; breakable, fragile.
- A certain learned and curious Author gives us the following Characters or Properties of Glaſs, whereby it is diſtinguiſh'd from all other Bodies, viz. […] That it is frangible when thin, without annealing.
- Another object still [of roasting iron ore], is to make the ore more frangible, that it may be easily broken into fragments of a suitable size for smelting.
Something that is breakable or fragile
Something that is breakable or fragile; especially something that is intentionally made so, such as a bullet.
- Is there some law of nature that states that an assassin can only use one kind of ammunition? Couldn't he just as easily load a frangible bullet and a nonfrangible one into his magazine as two frangibles or two regular, hardened rounds?
The neighborhood
- antonyminfrangible
- antonymindestructible
- antonymnonbrittle
- antonymunbreakable
- antonymunfragile
- antonymunfrangible
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for frangible. 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