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alterable
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Word definitions for alterable in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from alter + -able . Related: Alterably ; alterability .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alterable \Al"ter*a*ble\, a. [Cf. F. alt['e]rable.] Capable of being altered. Our condition in this world is mutable and uncertain, alterable by a thousand accidents. --Rogers.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Capable of being changed, changeable, mutable n. Something that can be altered; a variable.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic; "alterable clothing"; "alterable conditions of employment" [ant: unalterable ] of a sentence; capable of being changed to one less severe
Usage examples of alterable.
The machine she spoke of would be a brain-scanner of some sort which would record three-dimensionally the microstates of her brain, in particular those of the deeper, less alterable layers.
The novelists Harry favored never suggested that even the worst human behavior was alterable.
The machine she spoke of would be a brain scanner of some sort which would record three-dimensionally the microstates of her brain, in particular those of the deeper, less alterable layers.