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reposable

adj

Etymology

Blend of reusable + disposable.

  1. borrowed from repos
  2. derived from repos — “calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”
  3. derived from repos
  4. derived from repous
  5. inherited from repose
  6. derived from *peh₂w-✻ — “few, little; smallness”
  7. derived from παῦσῐς — “ceasing, stopping”
  8. derived from repausāre
  9. derived from reposer
  10. derived from reposer
  11. derived from reposer
  12. inherited from reposen — “to rest”
  13. suffixed as reposable — “repose + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be placed in a different pose.

  2. Reusable for a limited number of times, but ultimately disposable.

  3. A surgical instrument designed to be used a limited number of times before disposal.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reposable. 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