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inoperable
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Word definitions for inoperable in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 incapable of being successfully surgically operated on. 2 incapable of correct operation or function; inoperative.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1856, from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + operable .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an inoperable brain tumor
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. not able to perform its normal function [syn: unusable ] not suitable for surgery; "metastasis has rendered the tumor inoperable" [ant: operable ]
Usage examples of inoperable.
The disabling function in question will be achieved by nanobots taking all movement, weapons, and communication systems into inoperable status.
Scott, am I correct in assuming that with the modulator crystals gone, the warp drive is inoperable?
Scott, am I correct hi assuming that with the modulator crystals gone, the warp drive is inoperable?
Her overdrive was still inoperable until the winding was finished, and if and when it could be used, the pirate should be able to blow it instantly.
They were allowed to extract the breechblock and exfiltrate with it to render the gun inoperable, but exfiltrating without specific orders to do so was a court martial offense.
Inoperable, they had said, and sent her home again under the care of her doctor and with instructions to Suzannah not to tell her aunt what ailed her.
A devoutly religious experimental oncologist dying of his own inoperable colorectal neoplastis moans Why oh why Lord do You give this man this idiotic picayune power and I no power over my own ravening colorectal cells.
LNC's Hellbore remained operational, but he'd expended ninety-six percent of his depletable munitions, his starboard infinite repeaters were completely inoperable, and his command and control systems' efficiency was badly degraded.
If all the airlocks were inoperable in FTL flight, they could at least use the air outlets in the repair bays .
Four more died in infancy and early childhood of inoperable brain cancers, three of some subtler failure to thrive.
He showed Stephen his few cases, and they lingered a while over a seaman whose inoperable gummata were pressing on his brain in such a manner that his speech followed an inverted logic of its own.
Electronic carbon dioxide scrubbers were inoperable, and old-style lithium hydroxide carbon dioxide scrubber canisters were much less effective without air being circulated through them.
He had inoperable cancer and he had refused, strenuously, all suggestions of chemical treatment or of radiation therapy.
He was one of her favorite patients, a gentle man in his seventies who had been brought in with inoperable stomach cancer.