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viable
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Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are [syn: feasible , executable , practicable , workable ] capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable seeds"; "a viable fetus"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Viable \Vi"a*ble\, a. [F., from vie life, L. vita. See Vital .] (Law) Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant. Note: Unless he [an infant] ...
Usage examples of viable.
Now, once again, in the push to translate his prediction theory into a viable production prototype, feedback emerged as the focal point and final obstacle in his war work with Bigelow.
Solmev Scale, the first attempted terraforming, the first failed terraforming -- a world bypassed after the black-hole death of Old Earth because of the Hawking drive, because of the imperatives of the Hegira, because no one wanted to live on the rusty sphere of permafrost when the galaxy offered a near-infinite number of prettier, healthier, more viable worlds.
For example, an orthodontist near my home decided that the baby boomer niche represented a viable secondary market for his practice, the primary market being teenagers and young adults.
The Sharani were triadic by nature and necessity since it required three parents to produce viable offspring: sire, bloodmother, and wombmother.
He had fallen in love with a Sharani and her mate, those triadic women who required three parents to produce viable offspring, father, bloodmother, and wombmother.
In fact, viable anthrax spores can still be found along the cattle trails of the Old West.
So it should be quite easy to take an unfertilized turkey egg, inject a dodo blastula, and, with luck, hatch a perfectly viable dodo chick.
Efforts, however, are underway to establish a viable predictive model which will integrate the various tectonic, geologic, hydrological, and seismic dynamics presently under investigation by Geosciences Department personnel.
Balanced within the tension of opposites, the argument that Kundera consistently misrepresents women or fails to offer alternatives to their abuse and mistreatment is as viable as the claim that he exposes, critiques, and deconstructs, even though this double possibility must mean that the edge of both arguments is dulled.
A mutant 79-byte creature proved not only to be viable, but soon outbred and outpaced the 80-bytes.
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime and professionals in other fields, the profiling process will continue to be refined and be a viable investigative aid to law enforcement.
But it was a viable, working community, thick with commerce and Shir government.
On the Unallied Planet of Tlulax in the distant Thalim solar system, his people ran organ farms, growing human hearts, lungs, kidneys, and other body parts from viable cells.
Article 312 of the Civil Code of France accords a minimum of one hundred and eighty and a maximum of three hundred days for the gestation of a viable child.
The behavioral analysis of threatening oral and written communications in extortions, bombings, and terrorist incidents is another viable application of artificial intelligence technology to real-world law enforcement problems.