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reusable

adj

Etymology

From reuse + -able.

  1. derived from uti — “to use”
  2. derived from uso — “use”
  3. derived from user — “use, employ, practice”
  4. inherited from usen
  5. derived from ūsus — “use, custom, skill, habit”
  6. derived from us
  7. inherited from use
  8. prefixed as reuse — “re + use”
  9. suffixed as reusable — “reuse + able”

Definitions

  1. Able to be used again

    Able to be used again; especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing

    • The donor power car, owned by SR, will then be removed from Haymarket depot and disposed of. It has already been stripped of reusable components for the IC7 power cars north of the border.

  2. (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded

    (of a program) Able to be executed by several tasks without being reloaded; either reentrant or serially reusable

  3. Any product, such as a diaper, that is not disposable but can be used more than once.

The neighborhood

Derived

nonreusable, reposable, reusability, reusably, unreusable

Vish — recursive loop

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

10 hops · closes at reusable

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